{"id":39247,"date":"2015-01-04T00:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T00:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39247"},"modified":"2015-01-05T01:49:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T01:49:46","slug":"edward-brooke-pioneering-u-s-senator-in-massachusetts-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39247","title":{"rendered":"Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/04\/us\/edward-brooke-pioneering-us-senator-in-massachusetts-dies-at-95.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2015-01-03<\/p>\n<p><strong>Douglas Martin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Brooke\" target=\"_blank\">Edward W. Brooke III<\/a>, who in 1966 became the first African-American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote, winning as a Republican in overwhelmingly Democratic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts<\/a>, died on Saturday at his home in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coral_Gables,_Florida\" target=\"_blank\">Coral Gables, Fla<\/a>. He was 95.<\/p>\n<p>His death was confirmed by Ralph Neas, a family spokesman, who said Mr. Brooke was surrounded by members of his family.<\/p>\n<p>He won his Senate seat by nearly a half-million votes in 1966 and was re-elected in 1972. He remains the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/pagelayout\/history\/h_multi_sections_and_teasers\/Photo_Exhibit_African_American_Senators.htm\" target=\"_blank\">only black senator<\/a> ever to have been returned to office.<\/p>\n<p>A skilled coalition builder at a time when Congress was less partisan and ideologically divided than it is today, Mr. Brooke shunned labels, but he was seen as a centrist. His positions and votes were consistently more liberal than those of his increasingly conservative Republican colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>He opposed the expansion of nuclear arsenals, pushed for improved relations with China and championed civil rights, the legalization of abortion and fair-housing policies. He urged Republicans to match the Democrats in coming up with programs to aid cities and the poor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire obituary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/04\/us\/edward-brooke-pioneering-us-senator-in-massachusetts-dies-at-95.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Brooke, Pioneering U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, Dies at 95 The New York Times 2015-01-03 Douglas Martin Edward 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,26,20],"tags":[11881,11122,18976,18975,3712,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-39247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-douglas-martin","tag-edward-brooke","tag-edward-w-brooke","tag-edward-w-brooke-iii","tag-massachusetts","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}