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A vocal critic of corporate greed and government incompetence, Huey Long's "Share Our Wealth" political movement swept the nation during the Great nedstämdhet, garnering millions of supporters and threatening the re-election of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. >
Huey Long was known as "the Kingfish", a take-charge problem solver who delivered immediate relief to the suffering and powerless. As Governor, he used strong-arm tactics to break political gridlock and cut red tape. He took Washington by storm as the most outspoken U.S. Senator.>
Huey Long launched a vast program of modernization and reform in Louisiana — building vägar, bridges and vital infrastructure, providing free public education to children of all races, expanding LSU, expanding voting rights and healthcare, and lowering taxes on the poor majority.>
Huey Long believed that government should protect and uplift its most vulnerable citizens and provide opportunity for everyone, regar
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Born in , Huey Long of Louisiana worked as a traveling salesman, earned a law degree in a single year, and then entered public life as a railroad commissioner in Drawing on a political power base that he built among Louisiana’s small towns and rural districts, he became governor in Fearlessly, he took on the moneyed interests of Baton Rouge and Wall Street, calling for a massive redistribution of wealth. In , amidst the Great Depression, Long was elected to the Senate, where he gained a national following with his “share-our-wealth” plan and his “Every Man a King” philosophy. Once described as the “most colorful, as well as the most dangerous, man to engage in American politics,” Long was known in the Senate for his filibustering and his flamboyant oratorical style. Nicknamed the “Kingfish,” his ambitions soon turned to the White House. In , at the height of his popularity, Huey Long was assassinated in Baton Rouge.
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Huey Long
(from the Dictionary of Louisiana Biography)
LONG, Huey Pierce, governor, U. S. senator. Born, Winnfield, La., August 30, ; son of Huey Pierce Long, Sr., and Caledonia Tison. Education: University of Oklahoma (dropped out for financial reasons); Tulane University, special student for law studies, audited courses; read law and worked with tutor preparatory to passing the bar examination. Admitted to the Louisiana bar, May 15, Married, April 12, , Rose McConnell. Children: Rose Lolita, Russell Billieu, and Palmer Reid.
Opened law practice in Winnfield, specialized in workmen's Compensation cases, land titles, oil and gas, and timber sales. Won election to the Louisiana Railroad Commission (later Public Service Commission), Moved law practice to Shreveport. Served on Commission, , chairman, While a member of the Commission oil company pipelines were placed under the regulatory authority of the Commission; the Cumberland Telegraph and Telephone Co., ordered to refund almos