Season two of Homeland is set about six months after the events of the first season finale with Brody a newly-minted Congressman for Virginia and Carrie, now an ESL teacher, working with the CIA in Lebanon.
The passing of former Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke III, at age 95, gave obituary writers and political commentators a rare opportunityâperhaps one of the lastâto put together the words âliberal Republican.â
After all, Overton is 111 years old, and it's not every day that the oldest living veteran in the country seems to beat everything that's thrown his way. Overton was born in 1906 to James and Elizabeth Overton, in the town of St. Mary's Colony, a black farming community east of Austin. Founded shortly after emancipation by freed slaves, the town's population dwindled from a high of 300.