The senator is known to be a staunch supporter of your firm.
Charles sumner, repuplican senator from massachusetts.
Preston Brooks was for slavery. He was a staunch defender of the institution and was known for his violent defense of the practice, including his brutal caning of Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, on the Senate floor in 1856.
Senator Charles Sumner
During Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Senator Ted Kennedy was a staunch supporter of this candidate.
Yes. Charles Sumner was a Radical Republican and abolitionist Senator from Massachusetts. One day, after giving an inflammatory speech against slavery, a Southern Senator beat Sumner with a cane while Sumner was sitting at his desk in the Senate chamber.
Massachusetts
Yes. Charles Sumner was a Radical Republican and abolitionist who served as a U.S. Senator during the Civil War.
On May 22, 1856, abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner, a Free Soil senator from Massachusetts, was beaten with a cane on the Senate floor by Senator Preston Brooks, a Democrat from South Carolina. He needed three months to recuperate. Brooks resigned in July, was re-elected in August and again in the November regular election, but died of croup in January 1857.
Charles Sumner was a Massachusetts Senator.
Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts died yesterday.
Massachusetts