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	Edward Brooke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward William Brooke III (born October 26, 1919) is an American politician and was the first African American to be elected by popular vote to the United States Senate when he was elected as a Republican from Massachusetts in 1966, defeating his Democratic opponent, Endicott Peabody, 58%-42%.
		Brooke was elected attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1962 and reelected in 1964.
		Brooke was re-elected in 1972, defeating Democrat John Droney 62%-34%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Brooke (319 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Edward III
		Edward III (1312-1377), king of England (1327-1377), who initiated the long, drawn-out struggle with France called the Hundred Years’ War.
		Brooke, Edward William, born in 1919, American legislator, born in Washington, D.C., and educated at Howard University.
		Richard II, the grandson of Edward III, began his reign when he was ten years old, with rival factions fighting for control of his government.
	encarta.msn.com /Edward_III.html (138 words)

	EDWARD WILLIAM BROOKE Papers (Library of Congress)
		Often Brooke's responses or directions to staff are noted on these memoranda, which are arranged chronologically and record the evolution of the senator's legislative program, his stance on local and national issues, political activities, and his staff's decisions regarding constituent matters.
		Senator Brooke's stand on legislative issues is further clarified and developed in his articles and letters to the editor, his numerous speeches to organizations and institutions, statements on the floor of the Senate, and testimony before various congressional committees.
		When Brooke was sworn in on 10 January 1967 as the junior senator from Massachusetts and the first popularly elected fl to serve in the United States Senate, it was the culmination of a political career that had begun with his campaign for the state legislature representing the twelfth ward in 1950.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/brooke.html (3876 words)

	The HistoryMakers
		Edward W. Brooke III was born in Washington, D.C., on October 26, 1919.
		Brooke entered Howard University at the age of sixteen, and earned his B.S. in sociology in 1941.
		Brooke has received thirty-four honorary degrees from the nation's most prestigious colleges and universities and numerous other awards, including the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP and the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit from the Italian Government.
	thehistorymakers.com /biography/biography.asp?bioindex=482&... (459 words)

	The family of Langford Brooke of Mere, Cheshire, England, UK
		The family of Langford Brooke of Mere, Cheshire, England, UK This family and its estate are being studied as part of an adult education class run by the Department of Continuing Education at Keele University called Fine Arts and Society in the Late Georgian Country House.
		Jonas Langford Brooke, baptised 14 Sept. 1758; died in Milan on 19 July 1784, aged 26 and buried at Rostherne on 23 November 1784.
		Thomas William Langford Brooke born 8 May 1843, was the last of the Brooke line and died unmarried 1872.
	www.thornber.net /cheshire/htmlfiles/brooke.html (1830 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of liberal U.S. Republicans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Senator John S. McCain III is considered liberal on many issues, and voted against the George W. Bush Administration's proposed energy and prescription drug legislation, as well as the Federal Marriage Amendment, but he is considered the political protÃ©gÃ© of Goldwater and identifies himself as a staunch conservative.
		William Cohen William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is a Republican politician from Maine who served as a United States Secretary of Defense under President Clinton.
		William Weld William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) was the Republican Governor of the U.S. state of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, resigning to pursue the ambassadorship to Mexico.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-liberal-U.S.-Republicans (2863 words)

	Edward Brooke -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brooke was elected (The position of the head of the Justice Department and the chief law enforcement officer of the United States) attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1962 and reelected in 1964.
		In September 2002, he was diagnosed with (Cancer of the breast; one of the most common malignancies in women in the US) breast cancer and since then, has assumed a national role in raising awareness of the disease among men.
		Brooke is a prominent member of (Click link for more info and facts about Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.) Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_brooke.htm (373 words)

	Brooke Coat of Arms
		Brooke is one of the names that was brought to England in the wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066.
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Henry Brooks of Boston, Massachusetts, who settled in 1630; John Brooke of Montgomery, Pennsylvania, and William Brooks of Virginia settled in 1635.
		Edward, who loved knightly pursuits such as war, jousting, tournaments and hunting, surrounded himself with warriors, magnates, and chivalrous knights.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/brooke-coat-arms.htm (1213 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1858 the Rev. William Gill came to this town bringing with him a native from the island of Rarotonga.
		Leichhardt went to London in 1837, stayed for some months with William Nicholson at Clifton, was then in London for a period, and in July 1838 went to Paris with Nicholson.
		William Nicholson, however, changed his mind, but paid Leichhardt's passage and gave him £200 with which to start in the new country.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogL.html (21094 words)

	brooke hogan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brooke's career began while she was a student at Amherst College in the early 1980s when she and fellow student Jennifer Kimball formed The Story.
		Brooke served with army of the British East India Company in Burma in 1825-1826, was injured, and sent to England for recovery.
		Annette Brooke Annette Lesley Brooke (born June 7, 1942) is a British politician, and is Liberal Democrat member of Parliament for Mid Dorset and Poole North.
	www.searchtermtrends.com /terms/brooke+hogan.html (996 words)

	Shakespeare's Biography: Information on Shakespeare's Parents, Siblings, Career as Actor, Children, Marriage, Death, ...
		William Shakespeare was indeed lucky to survive to adulthood in sixteenth-century England.
		William Hart never married, but the leading actor of the restoration period, Charles Hart, is believed to have been William Hart's illegitimate son and grandnephew to Shakespeare.
		To William Kempe, William Shakespeare, and Richard Burbage, servants to the Lord Chamberlain, upon the council's warrent dated at Whitehall xv die Marcij 1594 for two several comedies or interludes showed by them before her Majesty in Christmas time last past, viz; upon St. Stephan's day and Innocent's day, xiiij li.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /biography (6028 words)

	Explore DC: Edward Brooke
		When Edward William Brooke III entered the United States Senate in 1967 he was not only the first African American Senator born in Washington, DC but also the first African American Senator to serve since the Reconstruction era.
		Brooke's unique position as both an African American and a Republican made him a natural bridge between African American leaders and then President Richard Nixon.
		Brooke moved to Massachusetts and became the first African American to win a statewide office in Massachusetts when he was elected attorney general.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=26&base13 (155 words)

	Ninety-fifth United States Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Walter Edward Fauntroy (Delegate), Democrat, District of Columbia
		Sedgwick William (Bill) Green (Representative), Republican, New York
		Charles Grandison Rose, III (Representative), Democrat, North Carolina
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ninety-fifth_United_States_Congress (181 words)

	Shakespeare, William - Biography and Online Books
		William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, a small country town.
		John Aubrey (1626-1697) tells in Brief Lives that Shakespeare's father was a butcher and the young William exercised his father's trade, "but when he kill'd a Calfe he would do it in a high style, and make a speech." In 1568 John Shakespeare was made a mayor of Stratford and a justice of peace.
		The family's position was restored in the 1590s by earnings of William Shakespeare, and in 1596 he was awarded a coat of arms.
	www.literaturepost.com /authors/Shakespeare.html (1578 words)

	List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
		Attended Edward III into Flanders in 1339 and served in the expedition to Brittany in 1342.
		312 (inv 1543) William (Parr) Marquess of Northampton.
		Her marriage to William 2nd Earl of Salisbury, K.G., was declared by Pope Clement VI null and void.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/garterlist.htm (13903 words)

	News & Events - News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The event will preview an exhibition of Senator Brooke's archive which will be on display to the public from September 23, 2005 through March 30, 2006 on the first floor of the Mugar Library located at 771 Commonwealth Avenue.
		The exhibition includes numerous photographs from Senator Brooke's long and storied career on both the state and national level, as well as various important awards and honors bestowed upon him, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
		Senator Brooke's archive is a recent adddition to the illustrious roster of the 2,000 notable figures at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.
	www.bu.edu /phpbin/news/releases/display.php?id=994 (217 words)

	16 - 31 October
		Born to a slave mother and a planter father, who was attorney to several sugar estates in Jamaica, he was self-educated and became a landowner in St. Thomas.
		1919 - Edward William Brooke III is born in Washington, DC.
		After serving in World War II and obtaining a law degree from Boston University, he will be elected attorney general of the State of Massachusetts and serve a term of four years before being elected to the United States Senate as a Republican in 1966, the first African American Senator elected since Reconstruction.
	www.kellyken.com /oct02.htm (6375 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Senate
		The Constitutional Convention delegates also rejected William Paterson’s New Jersey Plan, which proposed one legislative body instead of two, with equal representation from each state regardless of size.
		The Senate saw another landmark for civil rights in 1966 when Republican Edward William Brooke of Massachusetts won election to the chamber, the first African American in the Senate since Reconstruction.
		In 1973 the Watergate scandal, which included allegations of burglary, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and wire-tapping by President Richard Nixon and his staff, led to a dramatic showdown between the White House and the Senate.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761586759__1/Senate.html (6058 words)

	Edward William Brooke
		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.
		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 Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court.
		Britannia, Ralph Brooke, and the Representation of Privilege in Elizabethan England [*].
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0809073.html (302 words)

	The Overshadowed and Surprising
		William Noel Hodgson was a Georgian poet in the style of Rupert Brooke.
		(This was the battle to which Rupert Brooke was headed when he died en route.) Most of the poems in Jones' collection were written in the year just before the war, or in July 1914.
		Easton was too young to be a soldier in the Great War, but apparently became an admirer of its icons: his poems include the overwrought urn "To Rupert Brooke" -- a piece of tortured meter and inordinate adoration guaranteed to keep Brooke hiding in his grave.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~english/WWI/over/over.html (2322 words)

	Descendants of James Blount
		William Wilkinson, an associate and fellow vestryman of Thomas Blount, left in his will dated July 24, 1704, gold rings valued at twenty shillings apiece to Capt. Thomas Blount, John Blount, Capt. Thomas Luton and William Glover.
		William Downing and Edward Moseley, executors of the estate of Thomas Lee, consented to the division.
		William Blount was killed in a cane grinding accident.
	www.lamartin.com /genealogy/blount.htm (14232 words)

	Celebrating Black Republicans
		Williams is the first African American in Texas history to hold a statewide executive post and is the highest ranking African American in the Texas state government.
		In 1966, Edward William Brooke was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and re-elected in 1972.
		Brooke moved to Massachusetts and became the first African American to win a statewide office in Massachusetts when he was elected attorney general in 1962.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1505429/posts (7893 words)

	Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Brother Brooke was born and educated in Washington D.C. His father was a lawyer (Howard University School of Law, 1918) who was the son of a slave.
		Brooke's grandfather worked on a farm outside of Fredericksburg and was married to Dolly Jefferson of Petersburg, Va. ("I never looked into the history of her name," he smiles.)
		Brother Brooke has a slight catch in his leg as he walks, but he can identify every tree and shrub he passes as he tours his farm.
	www.alphaphialpha.net /news/feature_articles.html (3870 words)

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		Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
		Edward Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
		Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/ed (411 words)

	Bibliography - The Gaddis Annotations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		“William Gaddis's J R: The Organization of Chaos and the Chaos of Organization.” Paunch 42/43 (December 1975): 153-65.
		Busonik, Stephen William, Epistemic "Structuralism in the Postmodern Novel: The Examples of William Gaddis, J.G. Ballard, and Bret Easton Ellis." Ohio State University, 1993.
		Der amerikanische Weltliterat William Gaddis über seinen späten Ruhm – und sein spezielles Verhältnis zu Deutschland" ("Late Rebirth.
	www.williamgaddis.org /bibliography.shtml (7055 words)

	National Fair Housing Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The conference opened with a welcome from the Honorable Anthony Williams, Mayor of Washington, DC, and a keynote speech by Carolyn Peoples, Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
		The Honorable Walter Mondale and the Honorable Edward William Brooke, III were the recipients of NFHA’s 2003 National Fair Housing Award in recognition of their co-sponsorship of the Fair Housing Act in 1968.
		Senator Edward Brooke and Mary Davis, NFHA Board Chairperson
	www.nationalfairhousing.org /ann_conf_2003.htm (330 words)

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