huey long

     

A populist Louisiana governor of the early 1930s

Trivia about huey long

  • He was elected to Louisiana's State Railroad Commission in 1918, lost the race for governor in '24 but won in '28
  • Louisiana "Kingfish" who reportedly said, "The time has come for all good men to rise above principle"
  • He said, "I'm a small fish here in Washington, but I'm a kingfish to the folks down in Louisiana"
  • This Louisiana governor created his "share-our-wealth" in 1934, advocating higher income & inheritance taxes
  • 1970:T. Harry Williams, writing about this Louisiana "Kingfish"
  • Though elected to the senate in 1930, this Louisiana governor didn't take his seat until 1932
  • Ed played this legendary politican in the TV movie "The Life and Assassination of the Kingfish"
  • His namesake bridge spans the Mississippi in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
  • Russell B. Long, who was chairman of the Senate Finance committee from 1966 to 1981, was the son of this politician
  • In January of 1932 he stepped down as Louisiana governor to assume his duties as a senator
  • A statue of this man assassinated in 1935 represents Louisiana in National Statuary Hall
  • Carl Weiss was exhumed to investigate his alleged 1935 assassination of this former Louisiana gov.
  • In 1935 Dr. Carl Weiss allegedly killed him in Louisiana
  • He's the populist pol heard here in a 1935 speech"Every man a king: every man sharing in the splendor and abundance of God's Earth."
  • Elected to the Senate in 1930, he refused to resign as Louisiana's gov. until '32, when his handpicked crony got the gig
  • The one local doctor who might have saved this Kingfish's life was the man who supposedly shot him, Carl Weiss

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