In the Senate, heĮventually charged that Franklin D. He won election as Louisiana governorīy tapping into voter discontent with conservative ruleĪnd pledging a tax-the-rich program. Huey Long’s political ambitions stretched all the way to Occasionally stopped to pick up hitchhikers, whom she and her daughter would pepper with questions about politics While Long traveled in large caravans and constantly in theĬompany of bodyguards, Rose Long routinely drove theįamily car on long trips with the children, recalling that she

She was so unobtrusive as Louisiana’s first lady as toīe largely unknown to many of her husband’s constituents. Unlike her egomaniacal husband, Rose shiedįrom the spotlight and served as the anchor for her youngįamily. Work during his years as governor, though she remained Rose Long distanced herself from her husband’s political Who rallied around his “Share the Wealth” initiative, whichĬalled for a radical redistribution of wealth to afford every Gained a large populist following of farmers and laborers Senate where, in the early years of the Depression, he Introduced sweeping legislation that ushered in large public Serving on the state railroad commission, Huey Long wasĮlected Louisiana governor. Three children: Rose, Russell, and Palmer. Use on behalf of her husband’s early political campaignsĪnd served as a political adviser. After finishingĪ three-year program in seven months, he was admitted to the bar in 1915. Huey’s way through the Tulane Law School. To New Orleans, where Rose worked as a secretary to pay Rose McConnell won the contest, struck up a longĬorrespondence with the itinerant Long, and, in 1913, Lard substitute he was selling, was named Huey P. Salesman who had sponsored the contest to pitch the With a “bride loaf cake.” One of the judges, a traveling In 1910 she entered a cake baking contest Rose attended the public schools and later became a local McConnell family moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, where McConnell, whoĬame from a long line of southern planters. Rose McConnell was born in Greensburg, Indiana, Rouge, the shattered remnants of the Long political Accompanied by her children, Long diligentlyĪssumed her husband’s committee duties while, in Baton Huey Pierce Long, to fill his Senate seat for an abbreviated Her flamboyant husband, the slain Louisiana populist Rose Long emerged from behind the long shadow of

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