Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a name for himself as an advocate of liberal causes. His outspoken support of abolition and the rights of emancipated blacks, and his calls for ...

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Preston Brooks, a South Carolina Democrat, entered the Senate chamber, where Sen. Charles Sumner, an antislavery Republican from Massachusetts, was bent over his desk working on a speech.

Charles Sumner entered the freshman class Sept. 1, 1826. The undergraduates, now numbering nearly a thousand, at that period scarcely reached two hundred. Rev. John T. Kirkland was the president.