On August 5, 1968, Senator Edward Brooke was named temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida. Edward Brooke was the first African American to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction, representing Massachusetts from 1967 to 1979. His appointment as temporary chairman of the convention marked a notable moment in his political career. The 1968 Republican National Convention itself was a significant event, as it was held amidst a turbulent year of political and social unrest in the United States, with the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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