Meet Senator Edward Brooke, retired Republican Senator from Massachusetts. Barbara Walters has just revealed on the Oprah Winfrey Show that she had a long running affair with Senator Brooke in the 1970s. Get to know who he is. We have his biography as well as photos and a video of him below.
Barbara Walters taped an interview for the Oprah Winfrey Show and revealed that she had a long term affair with Senator Edward Brooke, Republican of Massachusetts in the 1970s. She recalled the affair with great affection saying that she remembers Senator Brooke as ‘brilliant’ and ‘exciting’. Walters appearance on Oprah is to talk about her new book, ‘Audition’, which recounts both her public and private life. Barbara Walters tells Oprah that she and Brooke kept the affair quiet for fear it would ruin both their careers. Senator Brooke has not commented on Walters’ revelations. The show is scheduled to air next Tuesday.
Senator Edward Brooke Biography
Edward William Brooke, III was born on October 26, 1919 in Washington D.C. He attended public schools in D.C. He graduated from Howard University in D.C. in 1941. He was a Captain in the United States Army with the 366th Infantry Regiment in Italy. He served for five years until the end of World War II. He then graduated from Boston University Law School in 1948.
Brooke began his career as a prosecutor in Boston. He ran for public office several times without 
success while continuing to command a reputation in Boston as a fierce prosecutor. He became known as a crime fighter, vigorously prosecuting organized crime and corruption. He also worked with local police departments on the Boston Strangler case. Edward Brooke held several offices for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts including as Chairman of the Finance Commission for the City of Boston (1961 - 1962) and then as the first African American in the United States to be elected as a state’s Attorney General. He served as Attorney General for the Commonwealth in 1962 and again in 1964. He was then elected to the United States Senate in 1966 and served two terms. He was unsuccessful in his third re-election bid which ended his Senate career in January 1979. Many attribute his loss to a very public and ugly divorce he was going through at the time.
Senator Edward Brooke was the first African American elected to the Senate by popular vote. He remains the last Republican elected to the Senate from Massachusetts. On June 23, 2004 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush.
Former Senator Brooke is currently living in Miami, Florida with his second wife, Amy. He is the father of two daughters and a son.
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