[Steely Tom]

Before the Civil War, South Carolina Congressman, Preston Brooks, stormed into the Senate Chamber, and just about beat abolitionist New York Senator Charles Sumner to death with a walking stick.

Did he tell the police he was heading for a vote?

[Clemenza]

Sumner (who was a great patriot, but kinda of an arrogant individual) was the Republican Senator from MASSACHUSETTS. Preston Brooks was white trash, but may have been justified in his beating of loud moth Sumner.