WASHINGTON: Politicians from both sides of the aisle mourned the death of "trailblazer" Edward Brooke, the first popularly elected black US senator. He was 95.

Brooke, who represented Massachusetts from 1967-1979 in the US Senate, championed laws to benefit the disadvantaged during his two terms.

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