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Autor: Brooke, Edward W.
Rok: 1919-2015 Edward William Brooke III (October 26, 1919 – January 3, 2015) was an American Republican politician. In 1966, he became the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate. No other senator of African heritage was elected until Democrat Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1993. Brooke was also the last Black Republican to serve in the United States Senate until the 2012 appointment of Tim Scott in South Carolina. As of 2014 Brooke was the only African-American Senator to serve multiple terms. He was elected to the Senate as a Republican from Massachusetts, defeating former Massachusetts governor Democrat Endicott Peabody in a landslide. He served for two terms, and was defeated by Paul Tsongas in the 1978 senate election.Brooke was the last Republican Senator elected from Massachusetts until Scott Brown was elected to fill the unexpired term of Brooke's former colleague Ted Kennedy in 2010. He was the oldest living former Senator from July 30, 2013 (after Harry F. Byrd, Jr.'s death) until January 3, 2015, when he died. At the time he was one of eleven living ex-Senators that were at least ninety years old and was one of only thirty three ever to have reached ninety-five years of age.In 1967, Brooke was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. |