Edward Brooke, liberal Republican from Massachussets and the first black American to be elected to the Senate by popular vote, died on January 3 at 95:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/03/us-usa-people-brooke-idUSKBN0KC0KE20150103

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"All of these men were good listeners; patient men."