Andrew Butler

Daguerreotype of Senator Andrew P. Butler, 1849 Andrew Pickens Butler (November 18, 1796May 25, 1857) was an American lawyer, slaveholder, and United States senator from South Carolina who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act with Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois.

In 1856, abolitionist senator Charles Sumner gave a speech in which he insulted Butler's character. In response Preston Brooks, Butler's first cousin once-removed, caned Sumner on the Senate floor, nearly killing him. Provided by Wikipedia
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