Edward W. Brooke, the Massachusetts Republican who was the first African-American to be elected to the US Senate since Reconstruction, died Saturday morning in his Coral Gables, Fla., home.

“Edward Brooke steered by his own compass, my friends,” said Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who, like Brooke, served as a senator for Massachusetts.

Former Massachusetts U.S. senator Edward Brooke, the first African American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, has died at age 95. Ralph Neas, a former aide, said Brooke died Saturday of ...

Edward W. Brooke, who in 1966 became the first African American popularly elected to the U.S. Senate and who influenced major anti-poverty laws before his bright political career unraveled over ...

Former Sen. Edward Brooke (R-MA) made history in 1966 by becoming the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. The Massachusetts senator talks to Tony Cox about his ...

And all Ed Brooke had to do was coast to a third Senate term. But it was not to be. The black Republican senator, who lived for most of his political career on Beacon Street in Newton Centre ...

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Edward William Brooke III was born Oct. 26, 1919, and reared in Washington, D.C. His mother fed her son’s love of opera by taking him to hear performances in New York.

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Edward Brooke, the first black US Senator ever elected by a popular vote, has died. Mr Brooke, who was 95, passed away of natural causes on Saturday at his home in Florida.