I guess the book creators.. forgot this guy .. Edward William Brooke III (born October 26, 1919) is an American politician and was elected to the United States Senate[1] as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966, defeating his Democratic opponent, former Massachusetts governor, Endicott Peabody in a landslide. He served for two terms, and was defeated by Paul Tsongas in the 1978 senate election. Brooke was the first African American popularly elected to the Senate and would remain the only person of African heritage sent to the Senate in the 20th century until Democrat Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1993, and the only African-American Senator to serve multiple terms. Brooke was the last Republican Senator elected from Massachusetts until Scott Brown was elected in 2010, and is the most recent Republican of African-American heritage to be elected to the Senate in his own right and the only one to win re-election. (Tim Scott, appointed to serve in the 113th Congress, was appointed to continue a term to which Jim DeMint was elected.) Brooke is also the oldest living former Senator.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 22:01:16 +0000
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