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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.
BibliographyOffice of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk,
Black Americans in Congress, 1870–2007. Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008; 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.
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