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Honorable
Edward
W. Brooke, the first African American elected to the
United States Senate in 1966, and the first African
American to be elected as Massachusetts Attorney General
in 1962, will celebrate his 83rd birthday on Saturday,
October 26, 2002, with a portrait unveiling at the Edward
W. Brooke Courthouse. The portrait, a gift to the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts from his wife, Anne, will be hung in
the Brooke Courthouse, which was named in his honor
in 1999. Numerous friends, colleagues, family members,
judges, legislators, executive branch officials, and
other dignitaries will help to celebrate the occasion.
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