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President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts-a state with an African American population of only 2 percent?. The mystery of Senator Edward Brooke's meteoric rise from Boston lawyer to Massachusetts attorney general to the first popularly elected African American U.S. senator with some of the highest favorable ratings of any Massachusetts politician confounded many of the best political minds of the day. This articulate and charismatic

Legislators --- African American legislators --- Attorneys general --- Government attorneys --- Justice ministers --- Afro-American legislators --- Legislators, African American --- Brooke, Edward W. --- Brooke, Edward William, --- Brooke, Edward, --- Brooke, Ed, --- United States. --- Mei-kuo tsʻan i yüan --- Massachusetts --- Politics and government