Question: Andrew Szanton, is an American collaborative memoirist, during his career he has worked with a wide range of subjects including who, which was an American Republican politician, and in 1966, he became the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate?

Context articles: Clarence Lightner
John W. Bowen
Andrew Szanton
Edward Brooke
John Sherman Cooper
United States Senate election in Georgia, 2004
Richard E. Jackson
Oscar Stanton De Priest
List of African-American United States Senators
Thad Cochran

Clarence Everett Lightner (August 15, 1921 – July 8, 2002) was the first popularly elected Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, and the first African American elected mayor of a metropolitan (defined as having a population of 50,000 or more) Southern city.
 Lightner, a Democrat, was also the first and to date only black mayor of Raleigh, serving in office from 1973 to 1975.
John Wesley Edward Bowen III (October 4, 1926 – May 27, 2011) was a Republican politician who, in 1966 became the first African American elected to the Ohio Senate from Franklin County.
Andrew Szanton (born in Washington, D.C. in 1963) is an American collaborative memoirist.
 During his career he has worked with a wide range of subjects including civil rights pioneer Charles Evers, Nobel Prize winning physicist Eugene Wigner, former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs John Whitehead, former United States Senator Edward Brooke, founding director of Xerox PARC George Pake, eminent surgeon Dr. Charles Epps, head of the Missouri Botanical Garden Peter Raven, and former Boston mayor Raymond Flynn.
Edward William Brooke III (October 26, 1919 – January 3, 2015) was an American Republican politician.
 In 1966, he became the first African American popularly elected to the United States Senate.
 He represented Massachusetts in the Senate from 1967 to 1979.
John Sherman Cooper (August 23, 1901 – February 21, 1991) was a politician, jurist, and diplomat from the U.S. state of Kentucky.
 He served three non-consecutive, partial terms in the United States Senate before being elected to two full terms in 1960 and 1966.
 He also served as U.S. Ambassador to India from 1955 to 1956 and U.S. Ambassador to East Germany from 1974 to 1976.
 He was the first Republican to be popularly elected to more than one term as a senator from Kentucky and, in both 1960 and 1966, he set records for the largest victory margin for a Kentucky senatorial candidate from either party.
The 2004 United States Senate election in Georgia took place on November 2, 2004 alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
 Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Zell Miller decided to retire, leaving an open seat.
 Majette became both the first African American and the first woman to be nominated for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.
 Republican Johnny Isakson won the open seat.
Richard Ernest Jackson Jr. (born July 18, 1945) is an American politician and mathematics teacher.
 He made black history in 1984 when he became Mayor of the City of Peekskill.
 Peekskill was the first city in all of New York State to have an African American Mayor, making Jackson - as reported by both the New York Times .
 and Ebony Magazine.
 - New York State's first African American Mayor.
 In 1974, the Village of Bridgewater (population 574) laid some claim that their Village elected an African American Mayor, Everett T. Holmes, prior to Mayor Jackson's appointment.
 Everett served as mayor from 1974-1976 and from 1979 until his death in 1982.
 However, the village of Cleveland in Oswego County can claim the first African American to be elected its chief executive.
 Edward "Ned" Sherman was elected in a special election in May, 1878 to fill the unexpired term of the chief executive, called President of the village, who quit a month after being elected.
Oscar Stanton De Priest (March 9, 1871 – May 12, 1951) was an American Republican politician and civil rights advocate from Chicago who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois' 1st congressional district from 1929 to 1935.
 De Priest was the first African American to be elected to Congress from outside the southern states and the first in the 20th century.
 During his three terms, he was the only African American serving in Congress.
The United States Senate has had ten African-American elected or appointed office holders.
 The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States.
 The US Census Bureau defines African Americans as citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa.
 The term is generally used for Americans with at least partial ancestry in any of the original peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.
 During the founding of the federal government, African Americans were consigned to a status of second-class citizenship or enslaved.
 No African American served in federal elective office before the ratification in 1870 of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
 The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote because of that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
 Of the ten senators, six were popularly elected (including one that previously had been appointed by his state's governor), two were elected by the state legislature prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1913 (which provides for the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people of each state), and two were appointed by a state Governor.
 The 113th United States Congress (2013–15) marked the first time that two African Americans served concurrently in the Senate.
William Thad Cochran (born December 7, 1937) is an American Republican politician.
 He is the current senior United States Senator from Mississippi (the third most-senior Senator and the second most-senior Republican member), first elected to the Senate in 1978, and the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which he had also chaired from 2005 to 2007.
 He also chaired the Senate Agriculture Committee from 2003 to 2005.
 Cochran won reelection to a seventh term in 2014, after defeating Chris McDaniel in an intense primary run-off election.
 He is currently the dean of the Mississippi congressional delegation.
 He is also on track to become the longest serving Republican Member of Congress if he serves until 2019, surpassing Joseph Gurney Cannon, former Speaker of the House, who served for 46 years.