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 ...

Former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who became the first black in U.S. history to win popular election to the Senate, died Saturday. He was 95. Brooke died of natural causes at ...

Edward Brooke was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Wednesday. Mr. Brooke was the first African-American elected to the US Senate by popular vote.

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.

IN A time before countless media outlets, social media platforms, and 24-hour news coverage, giants who later would become legends dominated the political scene. Edward Brooke was one of those giants.

“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. “A straight line can be drawn from Ed ...

Edward Brooke – the first African-American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate – passed away Saturday, according to family spokesman Ralph Neas and the Massachusetts Republican Party.

Former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who became the first black in U.S. history to win popular election to the Senate, died Saturday. He was 95.

Edward Brooke — the first African American to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate — passed away Saturday, according to family spokesman Ralph Neas and the Massachusetts Republican Party ...

As Brooke sought the Senate seat in 1966, profiles in the national media reminded readers that he had won office handily in a state where blacks made up just 2 percent of the population — the ...

BOSTON (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Edward W. Brooke, a liberal Republican who became the first black in U.S. history to win popular election to the Senate, died Saturday. He was 95.

Edward William Brooke III, the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote and the first Republican senator to call for the resignation of President Nixon over the Watergate ...