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Brooks was a fervent advocate of slavery. Brooks was tried in a District of Columbia court for the attack. Family
First marriage: Caroline Harper Means(1820–1843).
Sumner was seriously injured and unable to serve in the Senate for three years though eventually he largely recovered. This was in retaliation for an anti-slavery speech by Sumner in which Sumner attacked Brooks' uncle Senator Andrew Butler (Democrat-South Carolina). Brooks was a fervent advocate of slavery.