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Huey Long Aka: kingfish August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935

Huey Long Aka: kingfish August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935. Background.

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Huey Long Aka: kingfish August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935

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  1. Huey LongAka: kingfish August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935

  2. Background • Huey long was a politician from Louisiana, Winnfield. He was the seventh of nine surviving children in a farm owning middle class family. He was an excellent student and was said to have a photographic memory. In 1913, Long married Rose Mchonal, A stenographer (a person whose Job is to transcribe spoken or recorded speech into written form) In 1918 Long was elected to the Louisiana railroad commissioner at the age of 25.

  3. Long as Governor, 1928–1932 • Became The Governor of Louisiana May 21, 1928 • Pushed for new bills to pass in the session of 1929,These included a free textbook program for schoolchildren, an idea advanced by John Sparks Patton, the Claiborne Parish school superintendent. Long also supported night courses for adult literacy (which taught 100,000 adults to read by the end of his term), and a supply of cheap natural gas for the city of New Orleans. • Long began an unprecedented public works program, building roads, bridges, hospitals, and educational institutions.

  4. Assassination • At 9:20 p.m., Dr. Weiss approached Long for the third time and fired a handgun at Long from four feet away. Long's bodyguards returned fire, hitting Weiss 62 times, thus killing him. Long was rushed to the hospital, but died two days later, on September 10, 1935

  5. Long’s impact on today • In national politics Long made important innovations in campaign technique, including sound trucks and radio commercials. His more lasting contribution was to the state of Louisiana rather than to the nation. • Long created a public works program unprecedented in the South, with a plethora of roads, bridges, hospitals, schools and state buildings—it has endured into the 21st century. In his four-year term as governor, Long increased the mileage of paved highways in Louisiana from 331 to 2,301, plus an additional 2,816 miles (4,532 km) of gravel roads. By 1936, the infrastructure program begun by Long had completed some 9,700 miles (15,600 km) of new roads, doubling the size of the state's road system.

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