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Good NYT obit at link below:
Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95Edward W. Brooke III, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote, winning as a Republican in overwhelmingly Democratic Massachusetts, died on Saturday at his home in Coral Gables, Fla. He was 95.
His death was confirmed by Ralph Neas, a family spokesman, who said Mr. Brooke was surrounded by members of his family.
He won his Senate seat by nearly a half-million votes in 1966 and was re-elected in 1972. He remains the only black senator ever to have been returned to office.
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