Edward Brooke 1919-2015 First Black Elected US Senator
January 3 File - Edward W. Brooke (October 26, 1919 I January 3, 2015) the Massachusetts Republican who was the first African-American to be elected to the US Senate since Reconstruction, died Saturday morning in his Coral Gables, Fla. home. He was 95, and his health had declined in the past couple of months. Brooke served in the Senate from 1967 to 1979. Elected attorney general in 1962 and reelected two years later, he was the first African-American to hold that office in any state. He died from natural causes, said his former legislative aid. Pictured -Edward N. Brooke Senator of Massachusetts, 1966
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