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The longest filibuster in the U.S. Senate’s history was a speech made by South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, who held the Senate floor for 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957 to delay voting on the ...

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It's hard to imagine literally talking for an entire day, but that is what happened during the longest filibuster in Senate history. The year was 1957 and Strom Thurmond, a South Carolina white ...

Filibusters have long been used in American politics and began increasing in popularity in the legislative process in the 1850s, according to the U.S. Senate website.

The current record for longest filibuster is held by the Sen. Strom Thurmond. The Republican senator from South Carolina spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

It remains the longest recorded filibuster in American history. In the 1950s and 1960s, in particular, Thurmond and a group of senators used the filibuster frequently to block civil rights reform.