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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsBROOKE, Edward William, III
(1919—)
Senate Years of Service:
1967-1979
Party:
Republican
BROOKE, Edward William, III, a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Washington, D.C., October 26, 1919; attended the public schools of Washington, D.C.; graduated from Howard University, Washington, D.C., in 1941; graduated, Boston University Law School 1948; captain, United States Army, infantry, with five years of active service in the European theater of operations; chairman of Finance Commission, city of Boston 1961-1962; elected attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1962; reelected in 1964; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1966; reelected in 1972 and served from January 3, 1967, to January 3, 1979; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1978; first African American elected to the Senate by popular vote; lawyer; awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on June 23, 2004; is a resident of Miami, Fla.
Bibliography
Brooke, Edward. Bridging the Divide: My Life
. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007; Brooke, Edward. The Challenge of Change: Crisis in Our Two-Party System
. Boston: Little Brown, 1966; Cutler, John Henry. Ed Brooke: Biography of a Senator
. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1972.
Brooke, Edward. Bridging the Divide: My Life
. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007.
___. The Challenge of Change: Crisis In Our Two-Party System
. Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1966.
Cutler, John Henry. Ed Brooke: Biography of a Senator
. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1972.
Hartshorn, Elinor C. “The Quiet Campaigner: Edward W. Brooke in Massachusetts.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Massachusetts, 1973.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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