Edward Brooke
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American politician from Massachusetts (1919–2015)
OverviewAI-generated
Edward Brooke was born on 26 October 1919 and died on 3 January 2015. Over the course of his life he had three children, and his period of work is recorded as beginning in the year 1941.
He is recognised across several collections: the US Senators collection, the American Academy Arts Sciences collection, the Presidential Medal Of Freedom collection, and the Congressional Gold Medal collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 8 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 18
Top works
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- The Madman's Library, The Strangest Books, Manuscripts And Other Literary Curiousities From History
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via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1940-07-17
- Active to
- 2020-04-12
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
· 1953 · cited 29,963x
- Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
· 2000 · cited 28,595x
- The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
· 2000 · cited 24,818x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,551x
- THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
· 1963 · cited 18,994x
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Leverett Saltonstall
- Succeeded by
- Paul Tsongas
- Governor
- Endicott Peabody John Volpe
- Born
- Edward William Brooke III , ( 1919-10-26 ) October 26, 1919, Washington, D.C., U.S.
- Died
- January 3, 2015 (2015-01-03) (aged 95), Coral Gables, Florida , U.S.
- Resting place
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Party
- Republican
- Spouses
- Remigia Ferrari-Scacco ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1979 ) Anne Fleming ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1979 )
- Education
- Howard University ( BS ) Boston University ( LLB , LLM )
- Awards
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (2004) Congressional Gold Medal (2008)
- Branch service
- United States Army
- Years of service
- 1941–1946
- Rank
- Captain
- Unit
- 366th Infantry Regiment
- Battles wars
- World War II Italian campaign
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington, D.C.
- Place of death
- Coral Gables
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Position held
- United States senator
- Educated at
- Boston University
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Episcopal Church
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military rank
- captain
- Image
- Edward Brooke.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Work location
- Boston
Show 6 more facts
- date of death
- 2015-01-03
- Commons category
- Edward Brooke
- date of birth
- 1919-10-26
- name in native language
- Edward Brooke
- place of burial
- Arlington National Cemetery
- start of work period
- 1941-00-00
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Edward William Brooke III (October 26, 1919 – January 3, 2015) was an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1967 to 1979. He was the first African American elected to the United States Senate by popular vote. Prior to serving in the Senate, he served as the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1963 until 1967. Edward Brooke was the first African-American since Reconstruction in 1874 to have been elected to the United States Senate and he was the first African-American since 1881 to have held a United States Senate seat. Brooke was also the first African-American U.S. senator to ever be re-elected. He was the longest-serving African-American U.S. senator at twelve years until surpassed by Tim Scott in 2025.
Born to a middle-class black family, Brooke was raised in Washington, D.C. After attending Howard University, he graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1948 after serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Beginning in 1950, he became involved in politics, when he ran for a seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. After serving as chairman of the Boston Finance Commission, Brooke was elected attorney general in 1962, becoming the first African-American to be elected attorney general of any state.
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