Edward Brooke
American politician from Massachusetts (1919-2015) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 95
Edward William Brooke III was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1967 to 1979. He was the first African American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote.
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Brooke in his U.S. Army uniform c. 1941-1946
Brooke c. 1962
Brooke in 1967 behind a chair emblazoned with the Seal of Massachusetts
Brooke at the 1968 Republican National Convention
Senator Brooke in the US Senate
Senator Brooke meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office shortly after taking office in the Senate in 1967.
Brooke is congratulated by President George W. Bush at the Ceremony for the 2004 Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, East Room of the White HouseAwards
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Prior to serving in the Senate, he served as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1963 until 1967. Edward Brooke was the first African-American since Reconstruction in 1874 to have been elected to the United States Senate and he was the first African-American since 1881 to have held a United States Senate seat. Brooke was also the first African-American U.S. senator to ever be re-elected. He was the longest-serving African-American U.S. senator at twelve years until surpassed by Tim Scott in 2025.
