[Westbrook]

> Scott being the first African-American Senator since Reconstruction.

Not true.

Senator Edmund Brooke of Massachusetts.

[IFly4Him]

Unless she meant in SC only - but you’re right: Brooke, Carol Mostly Fraud and Obama also...

[Principled]

Edward William Brooke III (born October 26, 1919) is an American Republican politician, in 1966 being the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate. He was the only person of African heritage sent to the Senate in the 20th century until Democrat Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1993, and the only African-American Senator to serve multiple terms.

He was elected to the Senate as a Republican from Massachusetts, defeating his Democratic opponent, former Massachusetts governor Endicott Peabody in a landslide.

[vette6387]

Here is the article: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2008/05/barbara_walters_and_sen_edward.html

And you might make note of the fact that it was EDWARD Brooke.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

The first black Senator from the South since Reconstruction.