Brooks, Phillips
Encyclopedic Dictionary of American Reference · 1901 · p. 100
(1835-1893), was rector of Trinity Church, Boston, from 1869 to 1891. He was Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Ma achusetts from 1891 to 1893. He was regarded in England and the United States as the greatest preacher of his Church. Brooks, Preston 8. (1819-1857), served during the Mexican War, He represented South Carolina in the U. S. Congre as a States-rights Democrat from 1853 to 1859. In 1856 he savagely a aulted Senator Sumner with a cane in the Senate chamber for certain expre ions in a speech ‘‘ on the crime against Kansas.’’ The resolution for his expulsion from the House was not carried.
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