Huey Pierce Long, Jr. (August 30, 1893-September 10, 1935), nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, he was noted for his radical populist policies. He served as Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a U.S. senator from 1932 to 1935. Though a backer of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election, …

Ill-tempered law student. "Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure." Lord Byron, Don Juan "Cigarettes, they fill the gaps in our empty days..." Lucero, Kiss the Bottle.

Earl Kemp Long (August 26, 1895 - September 5, 1960) was a colorful American politician and three-time Democratic governor of Louisiana, who termed himself the "last of the red hot poppas" of politics, referring to his stump-speaking skills. He served from 1939-1940, 1948-1952, and 1956-1960. He was also lieutenant governor, having served from 1936-1939, but he failed in two other bids to be elected lieutenant governor, in 1944, …

Oramel Hinckley Simpson (March 20, 1870 -- November 17, 1932) became governor of the state of Louisiana in 1926, upon the death of his predecessor, Henry L. Fuqua. He was defeated -- he ran third in the critical Democratic primary -- in his bid for a full term in 1928 by the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr., of Winnfield, the seat of Winn Parish. Simpson was born in Washington, a small town in St.

Oscar Kelly Allen, Sr. (August 8, 1882 - January 28, 1936), also known as O. K. Allen, was the Democratic governor of Louisiana from 1932 to 1936. He was a key lieutenant in the political machine of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., that dominated the state during the first half of the 1930s. Allen succeeded Alvin Olin King, who served briefly in the state's highest office after Long left the governorship to take a seat in the United States Senate.

Carl Austin Weiss (December 6, 1906 - September 8, 1935) was a gifted young Baton Rouge, Louisiana, physician who was the apparent assassin of U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., though his family has vigorously disputed the assertion.

James Albert Noe, Sr. (December 21, 1890 - October 18, 1976) of Monroe served for nearly five months as a Democratic Governor of Louisiana after the death of Oscar K. Allen on January 28, 1936. Noe was born in tiny Evans Landing in Harrison County, Indiana, to John M. Noe and the former Belle McRae. He also lived in the area of West Point, Kentucky, as a child. His education was limited to county schools.

John Holmes Overton (September 17, 1875 - May 14, 1948) was an attorney and Democratic United States representative and U.S. senator from Louisiana. His nephew, Overton Brooks, was also a congressman -- from the Shreveport-based Fourth District of Louisiana. Born in Marksville, the seat of Avoyelles Parish, Overton was the youngest son of Judge Thomas Overton and the former Laura Waddill. He graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge in 1895, …

John Sparks Patton (September 23, 1894 -- October 30, 1961) was a Louisiana politician and educator who was an early advocate of taxpayer-funded school textbooks and a member of the Long faction of his state's Democratic Party. Patton was born in the village of Lisbon in Claiborne Parish in northwestern Louisiana.

Riley Joseph Wilson (November 12, 1871 - February 23, 1946) was a Louisiana educator, attorney, and legislator in the first half of the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th Century. A Democrat, Wilson served in the United States House of Representatives from from 1915 until 1937. He was defeated for renomination in 1936. He was born near Goldonna in Winn Parish, the traditional In 1894, he graduated from Iuka Normal Institute in Iuka (Tishomingo County), …

Arthur Vidrine was a physician from Ville Platte, Louisiana, the seat of Evangeline Parish in Louisiana. He is best known for having operated on U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., after Long was shot in the state capitol in Baton Rouge. He was educated at Tulane University in New Orleans, the University of Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), and at hospitals in London and Paris. Vidrine was named superintendent of Charity Hospital in New Orleans.

Allen Joseph Ellender (September 24, 1890 - July 27, 1972) was a popular U.S. senator from Houma, Louisiana (Terrebonne Parish), who served from 1937 until his death. He was a Democrat who was originally allied with the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. Ellender was born in the town of Montegut in Terrebonne Parish. He attended public and private schools and graduated from the Catholic St. Aloysius College in New Orleans, now Brother Martin High School in 1909, …

Benjamin Henry Pavy (October 16, 1874 -- April 1943) was a state district judge in St. Landry and Evangeline parishes, Louisiana, who was gerrymandered out of office through the intervention of his political rival, the powerful Huey Pierce Long, Jr. One of Pavy's sons-in-law, Carl Austin Weiss, M.D., was the alleged assassin of Long though the Pavy and Weiss families have long disputed that assertion. Pavy (pronounced PAH VEE) was born in Coulee Croche in St.

Leon Charles Weiss (December 10, 1882 - April 1, 1953) was the politically-connected architect who designed most major monuments of the Huey Pierce Long, Jr., gubernatorial administration in Louisiana, including the skyscraper-shaped capitol, the governor's mansion, and Louisiana State University buildings, all in Baton Rouge, and the LSU Medical School in New Orleans. Weiss was born in Farmerville, the seat of Union Parish, north of Ruston.

Henry Luse Fuqua (November 8, 1865 - October 11, 1926) was a Baton Rouge businessman and the last Louisiana governor to have died in office. Fuqua defeated both Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and Lieutenant Governor (and former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives) Hewitt Leonidas Bouanchaud in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1924 to succeed the term-limited John M. Parker.

Wade Omer Martin, Sr. (March 4, 1885 -- August 10, 1956) was a Louisiana planter, educator, and politician allied with the Huey Pierce Long, Jr., faction of the Democratic Party. Martin's longest tenure was on the Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) (District 2) for 24 years, beginning with his election in 1932. After Long's assassination, Martin attempted to run for governor in 1935 but was unable to mount a serious campaign. Martin was born in Arnaudville in St.

Lucille May Grace a.k.a. Mrs. Fred Columbus Dent, Sr., (October 3, 1900 -- December 22, 1957) was the first woman to attain statewide elected office in Louisiana. A Democrat, "Miss Grace," as she preferred to be called, became Register of the State Land Office in 1931 on appointment of Governor Huey Pierce Long, Jr. She succeeded her father, who died in office, and she was elected in her own right in 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1956.

Dudley Anthony Guglielmo, Sr. (April 21, 1909 - July 30, 2005), was the Louisiana insurance commissioner from 1964-1972. He served two terms until he was denied renomination in the 1971 Democratic primary by Sherman A. Bernard, a house mover from Westwego in Jefferson Parish. Bernard managed to win the position on the premise that Louisiana residents were paying too high in insurance premiums and that Guglielmo had presumably did little to stop the rate increases.

John Young Sanders, Jr., was a prominent Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, the Louisiana State Senate, and the United States House of Representatives, perhaps best known for his conservative opposition to legendary Governor and U.S. Senator Huey Pierce Long, Jr., and his support of the States' Rights Party in 1960. Sanders was born in Franklin, the seat of St. Mary Parish to Governor Jared Young Sanders, Sr. (1908-1912), …

Seymour Weiss (September 13, 1896 -- September 17, 1969) was a prominent New Orleans hotel executive and civic leader who was a close confidante of the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. Ironically, Weiss, the most loyal of Louisiana Longites, bore the same last name as Carl Weiss, the apparent assassin of Senator Huey Long. Weiss, who was Jewish, was born in Bunkie in Avoyelles Parish to Samuel Weiss, a merchant, and the former Gisella Elias.

Randy Lew Ewing (born February 10, 1944) is a Jackson Parish businessman who, as a Democrat, represented District 35 (Jackson, Lincoln, Union, and part of Ouachita parishes) in the Louisiana State Senate from 1988-2000. He was the State Senate President in his last term from 1996-2000, which corresponded with the first term of Republican Governor Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr. Ewing recalls his humble roots.

Victor V. Bussie (born January 1919) retired in 1997 as the 41-year president of the Louisiana AFL-CIO, having first assumed the mantle of union leadership in 1956. Observers often described him as the most significant non-elected "official" in Bayou State politics.

John Nicholas Sandlin, Sr. (February 24, 1872 -- December 25, 1957), of Minden, Louisiana, represented his state's Fourth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 1921-1937. In 1936, rather than seeking a ninth term in the House, Sandlin contested an open seat in the U.S. Senate. He lost the Democratic nomination to Allen J. Ellender of Houma in Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana. Ellender, a confidant of the late Huey Pierce Long, Jr., …