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The Long family is a family of politicians from the United States.Many have characterized it as a political dynasty.After Huey Long's 1935 assassination, a family dynasty emerged: his brother Earl was elected lieutenant-governor in 1936, and governor in 1948 and 1956.
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.
He served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and was willing to take forceful action. He established the long-term political prominence of the Long family.
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.
Another legend has it that Huey P. Long built Airline Highway so he could get from the statehouse to the back door of the hotel as quickly as possible. "During that time of course, this was all ...
Share Our Wealth was a movement that began in February 1934, during the Great Depression, by Huey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana. [1] Long first proposed the plan in a national radio address, which is now referred to as the "Share Our Wealth Speech". [2]
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.
The resulting funds would be used to guarantee every family a basic household grant, or "household estate" as Long called it, of $5,000 and a minimum annual income of $2,000–3,000, or one-third of the average family homestead value and income. Long supplemented his plan with proposals for free college education, with admission based on an IQ ...