Cory Booker

CTL-E-5400 · Person · politician · 2000s–present

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Cory Anthony Booker (born April 27, 1969, in Washington, D.C., and raised in Harrington Park, New Jersey) is the United States senator from New Jersey. A Stanford and Yale Law graduate and Rhodes Scholar, he entered politics on Newark's Municipal Council (1998–2002) and served as the city's mayor from 2006 to 2013, presiding over a much-watched attempt to revive New Jersey's largest city. When Senator Frank Lautenberg died in office, Booker won the October 16, 2013, special election and was sworn in on October 31, 2013 — the first Black senator in New Jersey's history. He sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination and became a national figure again on March 31–April 1, 2025, when he held the Senate floor for twenty-five hours and five minutes, the longest speech in the chamber's recorded history, breaking the mark Strom Thurmond set filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957 — a record Booker, a Black senator from the movement's own tradition, surpassed by forty-seven minutes. With Scott, Warnock, Blunt Rochester, and Alsobrooks, he completes the five — the most Black senators ever to serve at once.

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• Also known as: Cory Anthony Booker

Notes

Statistics: Sworn into the Senate October 31, 2013 (Bioguide). Longest Senate speech on record: 25 hours 5 minutes, March 31 – April 1, 2025 (Wikipedia, 'Cory Booker's marathon speech'). First Black senator from New Jersey. · Curator's Judgment: DRAFT — for founder review: The 2025 speech is the detail this record exists to hold: the chamber's endurance record had belonged, since 1957, to a segregationist filibustering civil rights — and it fell to a Black senator talking about conscience for a day and a night. A citation graph lives for successions exactly like that one. · Photo slot: CLEARED CANDIDATE — Wikimedia Commons File:Cory Booker, official portrait (119th Congress).jpg, Public domain (U.S. Senate), license verified from Commons API metadata on 2026-10-15; not downloaded — visual pass follows merge per standing pattern.

Sources

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 'Booker, Cory Anthony' (via TrackBill) — supports: birth April 27, 1969, Washington, D.C.; the October 16, 2013 special election and October 31, 2013 swearing-in — https://trackbill.com/legislator/us-congress-senator-cory-a-booker/60-11203 (primary source)
• Wikipedia, 'Cory Booker' — supports: the Newark council (1998–2002) and mayoral (2006–2013) service and his standing as New Jersey's first Black senator — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker
• Wikipedia, 'Cory Booker's marathon speech' — supports: the March 31 – April 1, 2025 speech of 25 hours 5 minutes, breaking Strom Thurmond's 24-hour 18-minute record from the 1957 Civil Rights Act filibuster — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Booker%27s_marathon_speech
• Associated Press / USA Today reporting on the 2024 elections (intake audit, 2026-10-15) — supports: the five Black senators serving simultaneously as the most in U.S. history

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