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The Earl K. Long Gymnasium at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Earl Kemp Long (August 26, 1895 – September 5, 1960) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Louisiana for nine years (1939–1940, 1948–1952, and 1956–1960).
On election day, 21 April 1936, Democratic nominee Earl Long won the election with 131,991 votes as he ran unopposed, thereby retaining Democratic control over the office of lieutenant governor. Long was sworn in as the 38th lieutenant governor of Louisiana on 12 May 1936. [2]
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.
Earl Cecil Long (November 4, 1883 – August 19, 1983) was a decorated officer in the United States Marine Corps who reached the rank of major general.During World War II, he served as commanding general of Service Command Fleet Marine Force, Pacific and later as commanding general of Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.
The 1956 Louisiana gubernatorial election was held on January 17, 1956. Incumbent governor Robert F. Kennon was ineligible to run for a second term in office. Earl K. Long won the Democratic primary, which was tantamount to election, securing his second full term as Governor of Louisiana.
The couple, who shared a son, Flynn Earl Jones, met while on the set of the 1979-1980 police procedural series “Paris,” according to her 2016 obituary. Cecilia Hart and James Earl Jones at the ...
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
James Earl Jones hangs out on "Sesame Street." In those televised segments, a young Jones slowly recites the alphabet and counts to 10 in his deep, resonant voice.