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Huey Pierce Long Jr. was born on August 30, 1893, near Winnfield, a small town in north-central Louisiana, the seat of Winn Parish. [1] Although Long often told followers he was born in a log cabin to an impoverished family, they lived in a "comfortable" farmhouse and were well-off compared to others in Winnfield.
Popular support for Long's Share Our Wealth program raised the possibility of a 1936 presidential bid against incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] When questioned by the press, Long gave conflicting answers on his plans for 1936.
On September 8, 1935, Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Long was an extremely popular and influential politician at the time, and his death eliminated a possible 1936 presidential bid against Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Long delivering a speech in the U.S. senate where he was known for his fiery and quick-witted oratory. Throughout his tenure in office as governor and then senior senator of Louisiana, Long was repeatedly labelled as an authoritarian and political usurper, akin to the carpetbaggers of Louisiana's past that had no respect for the rule of law.
On September 8, 1935, Carl Weiss confronted and shot Huey Long in the Capitol building in Baton Rouge. [12] At 9:20 p.m., just after passage of a bill reconfiguring the district of Weiss's father-in-law, Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy, to deny him reelection, Weiss approached Long.
A group led by Huey Long, Father Charles Coughlin, and Francis Townsend launched a third party movement to challenge Roosevelt from the left in the 1936 election. They built a short-lived party known as the Union Party, but it quickly faded from view after Long was assassinated. [276]
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Huey Long escapes assassination in 1935 and runs for president in 1936 as in independent. He steals away Franklin Roosevelt's vice president John Nance Garner. Long defeats both Roosevelt and Republican candidate Alf Landon.