Congressional Reform Hearing Before the Committee On Rules And Joint Hearings
Congressional Reform Hearing Before the Committee On Rules And Joint Hearings
United States Congress House Committee On Rules
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In 1832, Rep. Sam Houston was formally reprimanded by the House for attacking Rep. William Stanbery with his cane on a Washington street. Stanbery's response was to shoot at Houston, but his pistol misfired. 56 A duel Donald Bacon, "Violence in Congress, " Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, Simon and Schuster, 1994, p. 2065. 142 CRS-26 between two freshmen Congressmen in 1838 ended in the death of one, 56 Several serious episodes of violence occurred during the turbulent years leading ...up to the Civil War. In 1838, Rep. Abram P. Maury and Rep. William B. Campbell came to blows: Holding his colleague by the hair with his left hand and striking him blow after blow in the face with his right fist, Campbell beat Maury without mercy behind the Speaker's chair. In separate incidents in 1840, Rep. Jesse A. Bynum attacked colleague Rice Garland with a cane, and Representatives Kenneth Rayner and William Montgomery broke canes over each other's heads. In the 1850's, a pistol concealed in a House member's desk accidentally discharged.
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