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Huey Long, or more popularly known as the “Kingfish,” was a powerful and controversial Louisiana politician. Born into a modest background in the Louisiana country, Long’s ambition to work hard led him onto a long road of political endeavors. Even “as a child, his friends and relatives noticed, he was markedly unlike the boys around him (12).” After Long earned a law degree, he entered politics and utilized the popular discontentment for the unresponsive government in Louisiana in an attempt to gain public support behind his election as Governor in 1928. He reinf