“First African-American Elected to Senate by Popular Vote Dies”

Roll Call:

Trailblazing former Sen. Edward W. Brooke has died, the Boston Globe reported Saturday. He was 95.

The Massachusetts Republican was the first African-American to serve in the Senate since Reconstruction and the first to be elected by popular vote, serving in the chamber from 1967 to 1979. It would be more than a decade before the election of the next black senator: Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois.

 

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