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{{Infobox person
{{Infobox person
| name=Blanche Beulah Revere Long
| name=Blanche Beulah Revere Long
(First Lady of Louisiana, 1939-1940, 1948-1952, and 1956-1960)
| birth_date=December 17, 1902
| birth_date=December 17, 1902
| birth_place=Covington<br>St. Tammany Parish<br>[[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
| birth_place=Covington<br>St. Tammany Parish<br>[[Louisiana]], [[United States|USA]]
Mrs. Long was born in Covington in St. Tammany Parish, across [[Lake Pontchartrain]] from [[New Orleans]], to Robert H. Revere and the former Beulah Talley. The Reveres were a lower middle class family, and Blanche was a public stenographer at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. She married Earl Long on August 17, 1932; they had no children. Mrs. Long was protective of her several sisters and her only brother, whom she helped to obtain and maintain state employment in [[Baton Rouge]].
Mrs. Long was born in Covington in St. Tammany Parish, across [[Lake Pontchartrain]] from [[New Orleans]], to Robert H. Revere and the former Beulah Talley. The Reveres were a lower middle class family, and Blanche was a public stenographer at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. She married Earl Long on August 17, 1932; they had no children. Mrs. Long was protective of her several sisters and her only brother, whom she helped to obtain and maintain state employment in [[Baton Rouge]].
==Blanche Long's political persona==
==Her political persona==
According to former Lieutenant Governor and Superintendent of Education [[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], Blanche Revere was "in her young years a true beauty. And she was just as intelligent as she was good-looking. In her political days, her personality came across as either soft and sweet or blue steel and cold, depending not so much on how she felt, but on what the situation demanded."
According to former Lieutenant Governor and Superintendent of Education [[Bill Dodd|William J. "Bill" Dodd]], Blanche Revere was "in her young years a true beauty. And she was just as intelligent as she was good-looking. In her political days, her personality came across as either soft and sweet or blue steel and cold, depending not so much on how she felt, but on what the situation demanded."