Former US Senator Edward Brooke Dead at 95 | MyCentralOregon.com Posted by Social Media | Jan 5, 2015 | Coral Gables | 0 | US Congress(CORAL GABLES, Fla.) – Edward Brooke, the first African-American to be elected to the U.S. Senate, died Saturday of natural causes in Coral Source: www.mycentraloregon.com