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Died. January 3 2015. Birth Location. Washington, DC. Two term United States senator and member of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC). Edward W. Brooke (1919– ) was one of two former senators on the CWRIC and the only African American. Brooke was born in Washington, D.C., was the son of a government ...
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2004) Edward Brooke (born October 26, 1919, Washington, D.C.—died January 3, 2015, Coral Gables, Florida) was an American lawyer and politician who was the first African American popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served two terms (1967–79). Brooke earned his undergraduate degree at Howard ...
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Jan 4, 2015 · Edward W. Brooke, who in 1966 became the first African American popularly elected to the U.S. Senate and who influenced major anti-poverty laws before his bright political career unraveled over ...
Feb 16, 2018 · (Biography.com Editors 2016) State attorney general Edward Brooke was the first African American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, serving two terms. Synopsis Born on October 26, 1919 in Washington, D.C., Edward Brooke attended Howard University, served in WWII and received two law degrees from Boston University. His first attempts to enter Massachusetts politics failed, but after ...
May 8, 2007 · Transcript. Former Sen. Edward Brooke (R-MA) made history in 1966 by becoming the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. The Massachusetts senator talks to Tony ...
Mar 15, 2018 · Internal polling documents from the Brooke campaign and newspaper commentaries further demonstrate that a proportion of the white electorate cited Brooke's race as the reason for supporting his candidacy. This paper suggests that Brooke's election was extremely well timed—coming soon after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights ...
Jan 4, 2015 · BOSTON (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who became the first black in U.S. history to win popular election to the Senate, died Saturday. He was 95. Brooke died of natural causes at his Coral Gables, Florida, home, said Ralph Neas, Brooke's former chief counsel. Brooke was surrounded by his family. Brooke was elected to the Senate in 1966, becoming the first ...
