Huey Pierce Long

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Huey Pierce Long (1893 - 1935), called “The Kingfish” , was a American Politician populist and Southerner. Member of the Democratic party, he was governor of Louisiana of 1928 with 1932 and senator of this State to the Congrès of the United States of 1932 with 1935.

Born with Winnfield in Louisiana the August 30th 1893, this wire of Fermier S became lawyer then was elected in 1918 in its native Louisiana in State Railroad Commission, an organization which under its cane became the Public Service Commission, where it did not miss an occasion to attack Standard Oil and its owner, Rockefeller.

After a failure in 1924, he becomes governor of Louisiana in 1928 with a program progressist (development of the highway network, construction of bridges, increase in the appropriations for education, exemption from payment of the schoolbooks, greater medical assistance, tax on the oil incomes and imposition of the large companies). The progressists had previously obtained a flattering score with the presidential of 1924, their candidate, Robert Follette, obtaining even 16,5% of the voices and the state of the Wisconsin. (For the little story, his/her son Robert Follette Jr., will lose its seat of senator of Wisconsin in 1947, beaten by Joseph McCarthy). Length joins the Mafia thanks to Meyer Lansky, the organization wanting to exploit hotel-casinos in Louisiana.

In 1930, Length is elected senator but guard in fact the control of Louisiana by the means of a man to him (Alvine Olin King), which replaces it at the post of governor in 1932.

Long Huey supported Roosevelt with presidential, but was scrambled with him, considering it too related to the high finance. Length wanted to tax fortunes of more than 5 million $ and the annual incomes of more than 1 million $ (either respectively 64,5 million and 84,7 million current euros). It then attracted itself the lightnings of the world of the high finance which qualified it even “fascistic ”.

He then announced his intention to become independent candidate with presidential of 1936, but he was victim of an attack the September 8th 1935 in Capitole of Stick-Red. Wounded seriously by Carl Weiss (son-in-law of the one of the enemies Length, notorious warmonger), he will succumb two days later, the September 10th. Its last words were “Lord, do not let to me die, I have so many things to achieve”.

His/her son, Russell B. Long was senator de Louisiane of 1948 to 1987.

Homages

In 1937, the draftsman Al Taliaferro named one of the nephews of Donald Duck (Riri, Fifi and Loulou in French), “Huey” (two others being called “Dewey” in homage to the republican governor of New York Thomas Edmund Dewey, and “Louie” in homage to the trumpet player Louis Armstrong).

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