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|nationality=[[United States|American]]

|nationality=[[United States|American]]

|party=[[Democrat]]

|party=[[Democrat]]

|spouse=Rose McConnell Long

|spouse=[[Rose McConnell Long]]

|children=Three:

|children=Three:

Rose Long (1917–2006)<br>[[Russell Long]] (1918–2003)<br>Palmer Reid Long (1921–2010)

Rose Long (1917–2006)<br>[[Russell Long]] (1918–2003)<br>Palmer Reid Long (1921–2010)

|term_end=September 10, 1935

|term_end=September 10, 1935

|preceded=Joseph E. Ransdell

|preceded=Joseph E. Ransdell

|succeeded=Rose McConnell Long

|succeeded=[[Rose McConnell Long]]

|office2=[[Governors of Louisiana|Governor of Louisiana]]

|office2=[[Governors of Louisiana|Governor of Louisiana]]

|term_start2=May 21, 1928

|term_start2=May 21, 1928

==Early career==

==Early career==

Long was born in Winnfield north of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana, in the piney woods region that had a strong [[Populist]] heritage. His father, a farmer, owned a medium-size farm, lived plainly but comfortably but managed to send six children to college. The family background was culturally meager and was most strongly marked by pious [[Southern Baptist]] evangelicalism and by a Populist animosity toward the wealth and sophistication of the planter class and of "evil" New Orleans. Huey became a salesman after completing his public schooling and married Rose McConnell in 1912. There was something of the confidence man about Long at every stage of his career. As a traveling salesman, whether promoting a cooking shortening called "Cottolene" by staging somewhat fixed baking contests (one of which was won by his future wife), or selling a patent-medicine nostrum called "The Wine of Cardui," Long sometimes seems a figure out of Southwestern humor, a kind of second cousin to Mark Twain's Duke and Dauphin.

Long was born in Winnfield north of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]], Louisiana, in the piney woods region that had a strong [[Populist]] heritage. His father, a farmer, owned a medium-size farm, lived plainly but comfortably but managed to send six children to college. The family background was culturally meager and was most strongly marked by pious [[Southern Baptist]] evangelicalism and by a Populist animosity toward the wealth and sophistication of the planter class and of "evil" New Orleans. Huey became a salesman after completing his public schooling and married [[Rose McConnell Long|Rose McConnell]] in 1912. There was something of the confidence man about Long at every stage of his career. As a traveling salesman, whether promoting a cooking shortening called "Cottolene" by staging somewhat fixed baking contests (one of which was won by his future wife), or selling a patent-medicine nostrum called "The Wine of Cardui," Long sometimes seems a figure out of Southwestern humor, a kind of second cousin to Mark Twain's Duke and Dauphin.

After finishing the three-year program at Tulane Law School in less than one year, he was admitted to the bar of Louisiana in 1914. He practiced law in Shreveport for the next few years, having secured deferment from military service during [[World War I]].

After finishing the three-year program at Tulane Law School in less than one year, he was admitted to the bar of Louisiana in 1914. He practiced law in Shreveport for the next few years, having secured deferment from military service during [[World War I]].