Edward Brooke, Republican politician in elections, USA
Jan 1, 1966 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Edward Brooke campaigns in Massachusetts, 1966 elections. Edward W. Brooke (October 26, 1919 - 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
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