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Edward William Brooke

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Edward William Brooke 1919-, U.S. senator (1967-79), b. Washington, D.C. Admitted to the bar in 1948, he served (1963-66) as attorney general of Massachusetts, where he gained a reputation as a vigorous prosecutor of organized crime. Elected (1966) as a Republican to the U.S. Senate, he became the first African-American senator since Reconstruction . Brooke served (1967) on the President's Commission on Civil Disorders, which investigated the causes of race riots in American cities, and played (1970) a major role in the successful fight against confirmation of the nomination of G. Harrold... Read more
Rupert Brooke
...1964). The most scholarly study of Brooke in relation to his literary milieu...compiled A Bibliography of Rupert Brooke (1954). Additional Sources Brooke, Rupert, Letters from America, New York: Beaufort Books, 1988. Brooke, Rupert, Rupert Brooke in Canada, Toronto: PMA Books, ... Read more
Edward the Confessor
...adviser. For the rest of his reign Edward, by choice or necessity, did not...settling of domestic policies. In 1057 Edward's nephew, since 1016 an exile in...circumstances. His death made it clear that Edward's successor would be either William of Normandy or the popular Harold of Wessex. ... Read more

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