2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Andrew Pickens Butler (1796-1857) 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. Clipped Signature, “A.P. Butler, S. Ca.”.
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