The caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts.

(August 30, 1861April 24, 1938) an American lawyer and politician who served as the first chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1914 to 1916.