Corrupting power in Mass.

Edward Brooke

Edward Brooke

“Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.’’

Edward Brooke (1919-2015), the Bay State’s attorney general in 1963-67. In 1966 he became the first African-American popularly elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served until 1979.

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