Senator Sumner

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Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811- March 11, 1874), a Radical Republican leader, He was beaten badly by Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Representative, in 1856. Sumner had mocked Stephen Douglas and Andrew Butler in a speech he made opposing slavery.

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