Huey Long
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Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), also known as "The Kingfish," was an American politician who served as the governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1935 and was a member of the United States Senate from 1932 to 1935.
Louisiana's political leader had commanded large networks of followers and was ready to take forceful and dictatorial action.
He established the Long family's long-serving political dynasty and dynasty. During Long's tenure as prime minister, major changes were made in infrastructure, education, and health care.
Long was known among southern politicians for avoiding race baiting and explicit white supremacy, and he sought to improve the living conditions of impoverished blacks as well as impoverished whites.
Long's leadership, hospitals and educational institutions were expanded, a network of charities that provided health care to the poor was introduced, and big highway construction and free bridges brought an end to rural isolation. Long, a Democrat and a vocal left-leaning populist, condemned the rich urban Baton Rouge and Washington, D.C.
The banks, politicians, oligarchs, and the wealthy are among the banking establishments' richest, oligarchs, and the economists.
Long, who was initially a supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt during his first 100 days as president, eventually came to the conclusion that Roosevelt's "New Deal" policies were an ineffective compromise and that he did not do enough to solve the problems of the poor or tackle the Depression.
As a result, he created "Share Our Wealth" scheme, which would establish a net asset tax and redistributed so as to reduce the poverty and homelessness epidemic throughout the Great Depression. Long has advocated for major federal spending on public works, universities, and old age pensions in order to raise the economy.
Long argued that his scheme would benefit everybody with a car, radio, and a home worth $5,000. In collaboration with influential Roman Catholic priest and rightwing radio commentator Father Charles Coughlin, the influential Roman Catholic priest and rightwing national radio commentator Father Charles Coughlin, who died in June 1933, his plan prompted him to prepare his own presidential campaign for 1936.
Senator Russell B. Long, who was assassinated in 1935, died soon after, but his legacy in Louisiana continued through his wife, Senator Rose McConnell Long; his son, Senator Russell B. Long, and his siblings, Earl Kemp Long and George S. Long, as well as several other more distant relatives, are among those who have passed away.
He is still a controversial figure in Louisiana history.
Early life (1893–1915)
Long was born in Winnfield, a small town in north-central Louisiana, where the town of Winn Parish is located. Although Long often told followers that he was born in a log cabin to an impoverished family, they lived in a "comfortable" farmhouse and were certainly on par with others in Winnfield. Winn Parish was impoverished, and its inhabitants, mainly Southern Baptists, were often strangers in Louisiana's political system. Winn Parish had been a stronghold of Unionism in an otherwise Confederate state during the Civil War. "Who wants to fight to keep the Negroes for the wealthy planters?" at Louisiana's 1861 convention on secession. The parish was a bastion of the Populist Party in the 1890s, and a majority (35%) voted for Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist presidential candidate in 1912. These populist sentiments have long been embraced.
Long, one of nine children, was homeschooled until age eleven. He built a reputation as an outstanding student with a remarkable memory, persuaded his teachers to recommend him over seventh grade. He and his classmates formed a shadow society at Winnfield High School, demonstrating their exclusivity by wearing a red ribbon. Long said that his club's mission was "to do things," laying down stringent rules that students would have to follow." Long's antics were discovered by the faculty, who advised him to follow the school's rules. A flyer who criticized his teachers and the importance of a fourth year of secondary education, which he was kicked out in 1910, continued to rebel, writing and distributing a flyer that criticized his teachers and the importance of a recently state-mandated fourth year of secondary education. Despite having been able to discipline the principal, he never returned to high school. Long, a student, was a good debater. He won a full-tuition scholarship to Louisiana State University (LSU) at a state debate tournament in Baton Rouge. Since the scholarship did not fund textbooks or living expenses, his family was unable to afford him. Because he did not graduate from high school, he was unable to attend long term. Rather, he joined the army as a backpacking salesman in the rural South.
Long began attending seminary classes at Oklahoma Baptist University in September 1911, at the behest of his mother, a devout Baptist. Long and his brother George attended only for one semester, with little participation in lectures. Long spent time on law after deciding he was not suited to preaching. He enrolled in 1912 at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, borrowing one hundred dollars from his brother (which he later lost playing roulette in Oklahoma City). He continued to work as a salesman to earn money while also attending law part-time. He was one of the four classes that Long attended, one incomplete and three C's. He later admitted that he learned little because "too much excitement, all those gambling establishments, and everything else" made him forget.
Rose McConnell had been longing to sell Cottolene shortenings at a baking competition. In April 1913, the two began a two-and-a-half courtship and married at the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. Long did not have money on hand for his fiancée's wedding day and had to borrow $10 from his fiancée to pay the officiant. Long revealed to his wife that he intended to run for a statewide office, the Senate, and eventually the presidency shortly after their marriage. Rose (1917–2006) and two sons Russell B. Long (1918-2003), a U.S. senator, and Palmer Reid Long (1921–2010), a Shreveport, Louisiana oilman, became an oilman.
In the fall of 1914, he was long enrolled at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. After a year of research that concentrated on the bar exam's prerequisites, he successfully petitioned the Louisiana Supreme Court for permission to take the examination before the test date was set in June 1915. In May, he was examined and granted his license to practice. "I came out of the courthouse running for office," Long says.
Legal career (1915–1923)
Long established a private practice in Winnfield in 1915. He often appeared in workers' compensation cases. Long lived in World War I by obtaining a draft deferment on the grounds that he was married and had a dependent child. He successfully defended himself against prosecution under the Espionage Act of 1917, the state senator who had borrowed the money to complete his legal studies, but later stated that he did not serve because, "I was not mad at anyone over there." Long invested $1,050 (equivalent to $18,066 in 2020) in a well that struck oil in 1918. The Standard Oil Company refused to accept any of the oil in its pipelines, prolonging his investment. Long's lifelong dislike of Standard Oil resulted from this episode.
Long was accepted for three-seat Louisiana Railroad Commission in the same year. Long's political remark, according to historian William Ivy Hair, Long's political speech:
Long polled second in the Democratic primary, behind incumbent Burk Bridges. Since no candidate polled a majority of the votes, a run-off election was held, for which Long campaigned ardently across northern Louisiana. The contest was close: Burk defeated Burk by just 636 votes. Despite the fact that Long's support in rural areas was evident, he did not do well in urban areas. Long pressured utilities to lower rates, ordered railroads to stretch service to small towns, and petitioned that Standard Oil cease importation of Mexican crude oil and use more oil from Louisiana wells, among other things.
Long campaigned heavily for John M. Parker in the 1920 gubernatorial election, and today, he is often credited with helping Parker win northern parishes. The two became bitter rivals after Parker was elected. Long's appeal and Parker's refusal to announce the state's oil pipelines public utilities was likely to explain the state's oil pipelines public utilities. Parker enraged oil companies, led by Standard Oil's legal team, to assist in the writing of severance tax rules. Parker has long been known as a corporate "chattel." In 1921, Parker attempted unsuccessfully to have Long removed from the commission.
Long had been chairman of the commission by 1922, when it was renamed the "Public Service Commission" in its new name. Long sued Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company for unfair rate increases, but he was able to bring the lawsuit to a conclusion that resulted in cash refunds to thousands of overcharged consumers. Long was praised as "the most brilliant advocate ever practiced" before the court, according to Chief Justice and former President William Howard Taft.
