biography
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Brooke, Edward W(illiam)
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| lived:
| (1919– )
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| biography:
| US senator, born in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He studied at Howard University and Boston University law school, and served as attorney general of Massachusetts (1962–6). A Republican, he was elected to the US Senate (1967–79), the first African-American senator elected in the 20th-c. |
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