RIP Sen. Edward Brooke (R, MA), 1919-2014.

Ninety-five.  That’s a pretty good run.

Edward Brooke, the Massachusetts Republican who was the first African-American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, died on Saturday, according to Massachusetts Republican Party spokeswoman Kirsten Hughes.

Brooke, 95, was elected to Congress in 1966 by voters in Massachusetts at a time when the nation was gripped in racial unrest.

Senator Brooke served two terms; he was the last Republican Senator from Massachusetts until Scott Brown’s special election in 2010. My condolences and good wishes for his family and loved ones.

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3 thoughts on “RIP Sen. Edward Brooke (R, MA), 1919-2014.”

  2. And, of course, the Usual Suspects are taking this opportunity to slime the people they despise …

    “I don’t know Mr. Reagan too well,” Mr. Brooke said of the California governor in 1967. He had conspicuously avoided a luncheon in Reagan’s honor two years before. That a new age in neither race relations nor politics happened was, of course, intimately related. The party of Lincoln was increasingly the party of Strom Thurmond.

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