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    Huey Long, the former governor of Louisiana, served in the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. A powerful figure, Long was...
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    Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana...
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    Huey Long, a United States senator and former Louisiana governor, was fatally shot at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Long was...
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    programs. Long also served as Assistant Majority Leader (Senate Majority Whip) from 1965 to 1969. The son of Senators Rose McConnell Long and Huey Long, Russell...
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  • Huey Long (1969) is a biography of Louisiana Governor and US Senator Huey Long written by historian T. Harry Williams. The work was well received, winning...
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  • Huey Long, governor of Louisiana and US Senator, has inspired or been portrayed in numerous cultural works. He has served as the template for fascistic...
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    Alvin Olin King (category Democratic Party governors of Louisiana)
    faction of Governor Huey Pierce Long Jr. A state senator, he was President Pro Tempore in 1931, after Long had been elected in 1930 as a US Senator....
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    of the Democratic Party, he held the same position that his brother, Huey Long, held years earlier (1928–1932). Long served as lieutenant governor of...
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    Oscar K. Allen (category Democratic Party governors of Louisiana)
    the 42nd Governor of Louisiana from 1932 to 1936. He was elected to the Louisiana state Senate in 1928 in the wake of Huey Long's landslide victory in...
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    Hattie Caraway (category Huey Long)
    woman to preside over the Senate. She won reelection to a full term in 1932 with the active support of fellow Senator Huey Long, of neighboring Louisiana...
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    Share Our Wealth (redirect from Long plan)
    1934, during the Great Depression, by Huey Long, a governor and later United States Senator from Louisiana. Long first proposed the plan in a national...
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  • served in the Senate, a list of current female senators, and a list of states represented by women in the Senate. The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca...
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  • Huey Johnson (January 6, 1933 – July 12, 2020) was an American environmentalist. He was noted as a prolific organizer. Among other organizations, he founded...
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  • Dudley J. LeBlanc (category Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives)
    served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1924 to 1928. In 1932 he ran for governor, losing to the Huey Long candidate Oscar K. Allen. He served...
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    to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1937. In 1948, he was controversially declared the winner in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate election...
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    Jeff Davis (Arkansas politician) (category Democratic Party governors of Arkansas)
    served as the 20th governor of Arkansas from 1901 to 1907 and in the U.S. Senate from 1907 to 1913. He took office as one of Arkansas's first New South...
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  • Every Man a King (autobiography) (category Works by Huey Long)
    autobiography by Huey Long, who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana and as a member of the United States Senate. Aged 39 at the time, Long would be assassinated...
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    Allen J. Ellender (category Huey Long)
    lawyer who was a U.S. senator from Louisiana from 1937 until his death. He was a Democrat who was originally allied with Huey Long. As Senator he had...
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    John H. Overton (category Huey Long)
    13, 2015. Huey Long, Every Man a King: The Autobiography of Huey P. Long (New Orleans: National Book Club, Inc., 1933), p. 149. Huey Long, Every Man...
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    Martin Sennet Conner (category Huey Long)
    elected Governor of Mississippi. Conner was allied with Huey Pierce Long, Jr., the governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and the U.S. senator from 1932...
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    Richard W. Leche (category American politicians convicted of federal public corruption crimes)
    State Senate. By 1930, Leche had joined with Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and managed Long's campaign for the United States Senate in the fall of that...
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  • power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. The party was active in...
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    Jared Y. Sanders Sr. (category Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives)
    within the Louisiana Democratic Party. Huey Pierce Long Jr., in fact had once grappled with Sanders in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. He...
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    Friendship with Huey Long [dead link‍] Josiah William Bailey at Find-A-Grave Josiah Bailey papers. 1773–1867. 2" linear. At the University of Washington Libraries...
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    Gerald L. K. Smith (category American Disciples of Christ)
    demagoguery. He began his career as a leader of the populist Share Our Wealth movement during the Great Depression. After the death of Huey Long he shifted away...
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    T. Semmes Walmsley (category Huey Long)
    politician who was the mayor of New Orleans from July 1929 to June 1936. He is also known for his rivalry with Louisiana Governor Huey Long. Walmsley was born to...
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    Edwin S. Broussard (category Huey Long)
    Man a King: The Autobiography of Huey P. Long (New Orleans: National Book Club, Inc., 1933), pp. 256-257. "History of the Boston club, organized in 1841...
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    Bernie Sanders (category 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives)
    U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of...
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    Richard Russell Jr. (category Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate)
    Harris and joined the Senate in 1933. He supported the New Deal in his Senate career but helped establish the conservative coalition of Southern Democrats...
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    J. Bennett Johnston (category Democratic Party members of the Louisiana House of Representatives)
    Louisiana. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member the United States Senate from 1972 to 1997. Beginning his political career when elected as...
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