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===Strategist for Half-Breed Republicans===
===Strategist for Half-Breed Republicans===
Long's support for civil service reform aligned him with the congressional "[[Half-Breeds]]" faction. Along with Massachusetts senators [[Henry Dawes]] and [[George F. Hoar]], he tasked to formulate a strategy for the [[United States presidential election, 1880|1880 presidential election]].<ref name=halfbreedrepublicans>Welch, Richard E., Jr. (1968). [https://vermonthistory.org/journal/misc/GeorgeEdmunds.pdf George Edmunds of Vermont: Republican Half-Breed], p. 67–68. ''Vermont History''. Retrieved December 22, 2021.</ref>
Long's support for civil service reform aligned him with the congressional "[[Half-Breeds]]" faction. Along with Massachusetts senators [[Henry Dawes]] and [[George F. Hoar]], he tasked to formulate a strategy for the [[United States presidential election, 1880|1880 presidential election]].<ref name=halfbreedrepublicans>Welch, Richard E., Jr. (1968). [https://vermonthistory.org/journal/misc/GeorgeEdmunds.pdf George Edmunds of Vermont: Republican Half-Breed], p. 67–68. ''Vermont History''. Retrieved December 22, 2021.</ref>
==Death and legacy==
==Death and legacy==
[[File:John D. Long later years.png|thumb|right|200px|Long in his later years.]]
Long died on August 28, 1915 at the age of seventy-six. Governor McCall stated at a eulogy the following year:<ref>May 27, 1916. [https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=BOSTONSH19160527-01.2.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Honor the Memory of John D. Long.] ''Boston College Libraries''. Retrieved December 22, 2021.</ref>
Long died on August 28, 1915 at the age of seventy-six. Governor McCall stated at a eulogy the following year:<ref>May 27, 1916. [https://newspapers.bc.edu/?a=d&d=BOSTONSH19160527-01.2.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Honor the Memory of John D. Long.] ''Boston College Libraries''. Retrieved December 22, 2021.</ref>
{{cquote|The Commonwealth will treasure his memory. This House will perpetuate him as one of her brightest traditions. His influence was good upon his time and the remembrance of him will be wholesome upon the future. His qualities were so well balanced, the direction he received from nature was so strongly towards the true path, it seemed harder for him to err than to do right. The element of fierce struggle within himself seemed to be lacking. We do not see in him that engrossing drama played in the lives of so many men who have borne a great part in the history of the world, of men who fall and then rise, who are swept from the right way and fight their way back to it again. But he had that happier inheritance that permitted him always to move forward and upward and that steadily made his life a sane and sweet influence upon his fellowmen.|||McCall, May 1916}}
{{cquote|The Commonwealth will treasure his memory. This House will perpetuate him as one of her brightest traditions. His influence was good upon his time and the remembrance of him will be wholesome upon the future. His qualities were so well balanced, the direction he received from nature was so strongly towards the true path, it seemed harder for him to err than to do right. The element of fierce struggle within himself seemed to be lacking. We do not see in him that engrossing drama played in the lives of so many men who have borne a great part in the history of the world, of men who fall and then rise, who are swept from the right way and fight their way back to it again. But he had that happier inheritance that permitted him always to move forward and upward and that steadily made his life a sane and sweet influence upon his fellowmen.|||McCall, May 1916}}