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Preston Brooks was a Southern, pro-slavery Congressman from South Carolina. He is most famous for attacking Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, IN THE [UNITED STATES] SENATE BUILDING by hitting him [multiple times] on the back and head with a walking cane. Sumner suffered brain and spinal cord damage, leaving him unable to attend to his senate duties for months afterwards. Yes, Brooks was reelected. Today, [pulling a Preston] Brooks is used as a euphemism for behaving inappropriately violently in a situation in which such behaviour is not deemed acceptable.
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