Edward Brooke - Wikipedia
Edward William Brooke III (October 26, 1919 – January 3, 2015) was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1967 to 1979.
Edward H. Brooks - Wikipedia
Lieutenant General Edward Hale Brooks (April 25, 1893 – October 10, 1978) was a highly decorated senior officer of the United States Army, a combat veteran of both World War I and World War II, who commanded the U.S.
Edward Brooke | First African American Elected Senator, Civil …
Jan 1, 2025 · 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).
Edward W. Brooke III, 95, Senate Pioneer, Is Dead
Jan 3, 2015 · Edward W. Brooke III, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote, winning as a Republican in overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts, died...
Edward Brooke, 1st black elected US senator, dies | AP News
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.
Edward Brooke, III (1919-2015) - Blackpast
Jan 19, 2007 · Edward William Brooke III was the first African American to be elected by popular vote to the United States Senate. Brooke, an African American, Protestant Republican, won elective office in the overwhelmingly white, Catholic, Democratic state of Massachusetts and emerged as a leader in the U.S. Senate.
The Honorable Edward Brooke's Biography
Sep 23, 2003 · Edward Brooke, III was born in Washington, D.C., on October 26, 1919. His father, Edward Brooke, Jr., was an attorney for the Veterans Administration for more than fifty years, and his mother, Helen, later worked on all of Brooke’s political campaigns.
Edward W. Brooke - Encyclopedia.com
Jun 27, 2018 · Edward Brooke, who built his reputation by exposing graft and corruption, now faced the stigma of being forced out of the Senate by a scandal of his own. His political achievements, however groundbreaking, would forever be eclipsed by the tale of his demise.
Senator Edward W. Brooke III - MV African-American Heritage …
Edward W. Brooke III was the first African American politician to be popularly elected to the US senate since Reconstruction, when he was elected as a Republican for Massachusetts.
Edward Brooks - Wikipedia
Edward Brooks (minister)(1733–1781), American Congregational minister Ted Brooks(Edward William John Brooks, 1898–1960), English cricketer Ned Brooks (footballer)(Edward A. Brooks, 1881–1958), Irish footballer See also [edit] Edward Brook(1895–1954), New Zealand cricket umpire Edward Brooke (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the ...