![]() ![]() After working as a traveling salesman and briefly attending three colleges, he was admitted to the bar in Louisiana. ![]() Long was born in the impoverished north of Louisiana in 1893. A controversial figure, Long is celebrated as a populist champion of the poor or, conversely, denounced as a fascistic demagogue. As the political leader of Louisiana, he commanded wide networks of supporters and often took forceful action. He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), byname " The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. ![]()
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