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  Brooks, Preston Smith
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NamePreston Smith Brooks
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Edgefield, South Carolina , United States
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Born August 05, 1819
DiedJanuary 27, 1857 (37 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Oct 18, 2017 06:45pm
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InfoBROOKS, Preston Smith, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Edgefield District, S.C., August 5, 1819; attended the common schools and was graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Edgefield, S.C.; member of the State house of representatives in 1844; served in the Mexican War as captain in the Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses and served from March 4, 1853, until July 15, 1856, when he resigned even though the attempt to expel him for his assault upon Charles Sumner on May 22, 1856, had failed through lack of the necessary two-thirds vote; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Thirty-fourth Congress); reelected to the Thirty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation and served from August 1, 1856, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 27, 1857; had been reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress; interment in Willow Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.




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  10/14/1856 SC - District 04 Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  07/29/1856 SC - District 04 Special Election Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  05/22/1856 Brooks-Sumner Cane Fight Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  02/02/1856 US House Speaker Lost 0.13% (-13.28%)
  10/10/1854 SC - District 04 Won 66.84% (+33.67%)
  03/01/1853 SC - District 04 Won 32.35% (+9.13%)
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