3 blogs in 3 days?

Try three blogs in an hour. That's what I get for being ridiculously behind (right Sam?) 

Anyway, this first one is about former senator Edward Brooke. President Barak Obama recently awarded Brooke with the Congressional Gold Medal. He was the first African American elected to the Senate by way of popular vote. When he ran, he was an African American, a Protestant and a Republican. Mostly everyone else was white, Catholic and Democratic. But he won nevertheless.  Edward Brooke served in the Senate from 1967 to 1979.



More about Edward Brooke: Brooke is a D.C. native. He graduated from Howard University in 1941. He then served as an officer in the 366th Infantry Regiment of the segregated army for five years. In 1948, Brooke graduated from Boston University Law School. From 1961 to 1962, he was the chairman of the Finance Commission of Boston and from 1962 to 1964, he was the Attorney General of Massachusetts. Click here to read more.