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Huey Long ran roughshod through Louisiana politics for a decade, first as governor and then U.S. senator before he was gunned down inside the state Capitol in Baton Rouge in 1935.

Nearly 90 years later, many still believe Huey Long’s death wasn’t an assassination but an accidental killing covered up for ...

Long was born on Aug. 30, 1893, in Winnfield, Louisiana. He grew up on a family farm where the soil was “too poor to raise much cotton,” so they focused on cattle and hogs. It was a “self ...

For his first meeting with presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1932, Huey P. Long dressed in his flamboyant Kingfish mode: plaid suit, purple shirt, pink necktie.

In a new book, “Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU,” LSU professor Robert “Bob” Mann documents the intense relationship between former Gov. and U.S. Sen. Huey P. Long and the university he ...

On Sept. 8, 1985, 50 years almost to the minute from the time of Long`s assassination, ”Huey Long” had its premiere in the Louisiana State Capitol, the site of the slaying.

Louisianans either loved or hated Huey P. Long; there was no middle ground with “the Kingfish.” In the relatively short span between his election as Louisiana governor in 1928 and his death ...

Huey P. Long, historian Arthur Schlesinger explained in a 1986 Ken Burns documentary, was the closest thing to a dictator the U.S. has ever seen.

In a new book, “Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU,” LSU professor Robert “Bob” Mann documents the intense relationship between former Gov. and U.S. Sen. Huey P. Long and the university he ...