* Caledonia Palestine Tyson Long ( 1860 – 1913 ), the mother of Governors Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Earl Kemp Long, was born in Grant Parish.

He joined the Louisiana Bureau of Investigations under Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr. On the night of Long's assassination on September 8, 1935, he transported the governor to the hospital in Baton Rouge, only to be told that he should return to the state capitol to find out who had shot him.

He was the son of Huey Pierce Long, Sr. ( 1852 – 1937 ) and the former Caledonia Palestine Tison ( 1860 – 1913 ).

* Larry G. Sale, sheriff of Claiborne Parish from 1936 to 1944, bodyguard of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., decorated soldier of World War I, interred at Arlington Cemetery in Homer

Riley J. Wilson, a former U. S. representative from Louisiana's 5th congressional district who opposed Huey Pierce Long, Jr., was born in Goldonna.

* Judge Benjamin Pavy, father-in-law of Carl Weiss, the young doctor who killed U. S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., was from Opelousas.

Washington was the birthplace of Louisiana Governor Oramel H. Simpson, who served from 1926 until his defeat by the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. in the 1928 Democratic gubernatorial primary.

* Huey Pierce Long, Jr .-Governor of Louisiana

Earl Williamson, a local politician in Shreveport who was a confidant of Louisiana Governors Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Earl Kemp Long, was born in Carthage in 1903.

* John B. Fournet, the Speaker of the Louisiana House during the Huey Pierce Long, Jr., impeachment case of 1929 and later lieutenant governor and associate and Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, received his teaching degree from Northwestern in 1915.

Overton became a staunch supporter of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and served as Long's counsel in the latter's impeachment proceedings in 1929.

He first practiced law in New Orleans but soon became a leader in the movement to break the power of the political machine of U. S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., who was assassinated in 1935.

In 1930, Huey Pierce Long, Jr., the governor of Louisiana, initiated a massive building program on campus to expand the physical plant and add departments.

In that first defeat, Earl's brother, Huey Pierce Long, Jr., endorsed Fournet, but the rest of the Long family stood with Earl.

Long was born in Winnfield, the seat of Winn Parish in north central Louisiana to Huey Pierce Long, Sr. ( 1852 – 1937 ), and the former Caledonia Palestine Tyson ( 1860 – 1913 ), a native of neighboring Grant Parish.

He was the younger brother of U. S. Representative George Shannon " Doc " Long and Governor and U. S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr. Long's younger sister was Lucille Long Hunt ( 1898 – 1985 ) of Ruston, the seat of Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana and the mother of future Louisiana Public Service Commissioner John S. Hunt, III ( 1928 – 2001 ), of Monroe.

Along with Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Earl Kemp Long, Claiborne was among the first thirteen inductees into the Hall of Fame.

As a young man, Wisdom was a Democrat, but he left that party in reaction to what he perceived as the corrupt administration of Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr. As the Republican National Committeeman from Louisiana, Wisdom was instrumental in securing the nomination of Dwight D. Eisenhower at the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

* Edgar Hull, M. D., 1927, co-founder of Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans ( 1931 ) and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport ( 1969 ); later disputed the T. Harry Williams account of the assassination and death of Huey Pierce Long, Jr.

He was a Democrat who was originally allied with the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr .. As Senator he compiled a generally conservative record, voting 77 % of the time with the Conservative Coalition on domestic issues.

Long's brother, Huey Pierce Long, Jr., had used similar tactics in his feud with then New Orleans Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley.

Johnson was said to have admired the political style of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., but was to Long's political right.

Arthur Vidrine was a physician from Ville Platte, the seat of Evangeline Parish in south Louisiana, who was best known for having operated on Democratic U. S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., after Long was shot on September 8, 1935, in the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge, presumably by another young physician, Carl A. Weiss.

As a front-page columnist and political editor, he covered the candidacy and election of Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr., as one of U. S. senators from Louisiana.

* 1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.

* 1893 – Huey Long, American politician ( d. 1935 )

* 1935 – US Senator from Louisiana, Huey Long, nicknamed " Kingfish ", is fatally shot in the Louisiana capitol building.

* August 30 – Huey Long, Louisiana governor and senator ( d. 1935 )

* June 12 – Senator Huey Long of Louisiana makes the longest speech on Senate record, taking 15½ hours and containing 150, 000 words.

* September 8 – Carl Weiss kills Huey Long, U. S. Senator from Louisiana, in the Louisiana Capitol Building in Baton Rouge.

* September 10 – Huey Long, American politician ( b. 1893 )

Robert Penn Warren's 1946 American novel All the King's Men, the story of populist politician Willie Stark's rise to the position of governor and eventual fall, based on the career of the corrupt Louisiana Senator Huey Long, won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize.

* Kingfish: A Story of Huey Long, a 1995 TV movie

* Huey Long ( 1893 – 1935 ), nicknamed " Kingfish ", Louisiana governor and senator

* 1970: Huey Long by Thomas Harry Williams

Known for its intricate carvings and Art Deco style, the monument includes references to different modes of transportation a century apart — 1831 and 1931 — and mentions Huey P. Long, Jr., whose educational program Donaghey admired.

* Huey Long, governor of Louisiana

It ceased operation September 2, 1947 after the construction of the Huey P. Long Bridge, which included a railway, made its continued operation unnecessary.

West Baton Rouge Parish is connected to East Baton Rouge Parish by the Huey P. Long Bridge ( U. S. Highway 190 ) and the Horace Wilkinson Bridge ( Interstate 10 ).

Known for its intricate carvings and Art Deco style, the monument includes references to different modes of transportation in 1831 and 1931 and mentions Huey P. Long, Jr., whose educational program Donaghey admired.

* Elliot D. Coleman ( 1881 – 1963 ), sheriff of Tensas Parish from 1936 – 1960 and a bodyguard at the assassination of U. S. Senator Huey P. Long, Jr.

* 20px U. S. Highway 90 – connects the East Bank to the West Bank on the south ( via the Huey P. Long Bridge ) and to New Orleans downriver ( via Jefferson Highway ).

* 20px U. S. Highway 90 – connects the West Bank to the East Bank on the north ( via the Huey P. Long Bridge ) and to St. Charles Parish upriver.

The name of the book alludes to the nursery rhyme about Humpty Dumpty (" All the king's horses and all the king's men / Couldn't put Humpty together again "), an allusion similar to that made more explicitly a quarter-century earlier in the Robert Penn Warren novel All the King's Men, which describes the career of a fictional governor loosely based on Huey Long.