The person who held the record before Senator Booker was segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes to oppose the Civil Rights Act in 1957. Senator Booker spoke for 25 hours and 4 minutes, approximately 46 minutes longer.

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker took to the Senate floor at 7 p.m. on Monday, March 31 and did not yield the floor for more than 25 hours.

Many Democrats, including in Mr. Booker’s home state of New Jersey, reveled in his stamina and moxie as he assailed President Trump in the longest Senate speech on record.

Cory Booker (D-NJ) captured the country’s attention with an extraordinary speech protesting President Trump. Booker’s 25 hours-plus remarks on the Senate floor broke a more than 60-year-old record while earning hundreds of thousands of views and hundreds of millions of likes on social media.

Has Cory Booker‘s record-setting 25-hour Senate filibuster left you wanting to know everything there is to know about the New Jersey Democrat? Here’s a look at Booker’s ethnicity, with some crucial details about his family.