Preceded by Robert Rantoul Jr. Preceded by James M. Mason |
Charles Sumner US Senator from Massachusetts1851—1874 Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations1861—1871 |
Succeeded by William B. Washburn Succeeded by Simon Cameron |
Contents |
Charles was born 6 Jan 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts to Charles Pinckney Sumner and Relief Jacob.
He was an American politician and United States Senator from Massachuttes. As an Academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the US Senate during the American Civil War. He worked hard to destroy the Confederacy, free all the slaves, and to keep on good terms with Europe.
Consequentially, following one of his anti-slavery speeches, in which South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler, was mentioned, Butler's second cousin, Preston Brooks beat Sumner with a cane on the floor of the United States Senate. South Carolinians, with other Southerners, reacted with "widespread adoration" for Brooks. Sumner required three years to recover from his injuries and return to Office, yet Brooks was little punished.[1]
Charles was 55 when he married Alice (Mason) Hooper, widow of who was 28. They married 17 Oct 1866.[3] He divorced Alice for desertion 10 May 1873.
Charles died 11 Mar 1874. He is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4]
See also:
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Charles is 23 degrees from Zendaya Coleman, 24 degrees from Sting Sumner, 17 degrees from Josh Brolin, 22 degrees from Timothée Chalamet, 17 degrees from José Ferrer, 17 degrees from Frank Herbert, 16 degrees from Richard Jordan, 17 degrees from David Lynch, 15 degrees from Virginia Madsen, 20 degrees from Charlotte Rampling, 27 degrees from Patrick Stewart and 21 degrees from Denis Villeneuve on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.