Edward Brooke
Edward Brooke is an American politician and was the first African American to be elected to the United States Senate. He was elected as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966. He would remain the only African American to be sent to the...
Edward Brooke is an American politician and was the first African American to be elected to the United States Senate. He was elected as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966. He would remain the only African American to be sent to the senate until Democrat Carol Moseley Braun in 1993. He has recently been in the news for having an affair with Barbara Walters in the 1970s.
By Cleo Brown:At a time when African-Americans were deserting The Republican Party in favor of The Democrats, Edward Brooke of Massachusetts remained with The Republican Party becoming the first Black Attorney General of his state from 1962 to 1966. In 1966, he became the first African-American elected to the Senate since the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the era of Jim Crow. He was also the first African-American elected to this...
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