Preston Brooks. Mexican War officer, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1853-57), perpetrator of the infamous "Caning of Charles Sumner" in 1856, "P Brooks MC" frank at top of buff envelope addressed to Schenectady N.Y., missing backflap and small chunk removed at top not affecting the frank which is Very Fine, the ardent pro-slavery Brooks is well known in American history for the vicious Senate floor attack on Charles Sumner, which was one of the events that helped lead to the Civil War, less well known is that he was expelled from the University of South Carolina for threatening local police with firearms and was wounded in an 1840 duel with future Texas Senator Louis Wigfall

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