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History Politics and Society question: What was the longest filibuster in history and who performed it? Strom thurmond 1957 civil rights bill While Thurmond does hold the US Senate record for the longest ... While Thurmond does hold the US Senate record for the longest filibuster by a single individual, the longest on...
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Strom Thurmond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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James Strom Thurmond (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina and as a United States Senator. He also ran for the Presidency of the Unite...
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People don't really filibuster anymore. Interesting tidbit: The longest filibuster speech in Senate history was in 1957 by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond opposing a fair housing bill. It lasted 24 hours, 18 minutes.
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The South Carolina (search) senator, then a Democrat, opened his one-man filibuster on Aug. 28, 1957, at 8:54 p.m. against the bill, which he said was unconstitutional and "cruel and unusual punishment."
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Longest Filibuster Ever? ... Not great, but still enough to conduct a two year long filibuster! ... Email the article Longest Filibuster Ever? to a friend:
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The longest man-made structure is the Great Wall of China, which stretches for 4,000 miles. The longest snake is the reticulated python, ... Strom Thurmond holds the record for the longest filibuster in the U.S. Senate, speaking for over 24 consecutive hours in 1957 while attempting to block a civil rights bill.
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His fellow Southern politicians had vowed earlier never to filibuster. ... He would represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate through 2002, a year before he died at the age of 100. At the time, he was the longest-serving senator in history. Fellow former segregationist Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., has since eclipsed his record.
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Yet after 534 hours, 1 minute, and 51 seconds, the longest filibuster in the history of the United States was broken. Pekin's Everett McKinley Dirksen, then Senate Minority Leader, provided the votes that made cloture, the procedure for ending debate, possible.
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