POLITICIAN

Huey Long

1893 - 1935

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Huey Pierce Long Jr. (August 30, 1893 – September 10, 1935), nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Huey Long has received more than 6,343,149 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Huey Long is the 11,424th most popular politician (down from 10,534th in 2019), the 4,199th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,978th in 2019) and the 282nd most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Huey Long ranks 11,424 out of 19,576. Before him are François Buzot, Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, Lindsey Graham, Ulrich III, Count of Württemberg, Prince Vijaya, and Caspar Bartholin the Younger. After him are Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, Casimir Pierre Périer, Salman, Crown Prince of Bahrain, Artaxias III, Maria Komnene, and Nir Barkat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Huey Long ranks 148. Before him are Freya Stark, Vera Kholodnaya, Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Franz Joseph, 9th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Eugene Aynsley Goossens, and Bekir Çoban-zade. After him are Vera Brittain, Mykola Khvylovy, Bugs Moran, Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Georges Florovsky, and Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam. Among people deceased in 1935, Huey Long ranks 81. Before him are Agnes Pockels, Richard Mollier, Mack Swain, Dutch Schultz, Georg Jensen, and Nie Er. After him are Hans Tropsch, Virginie Demont-Breton, Childe Hassam, Sun Chuanfang, Tsubouchi Shōyō, and Pyotr Kozlov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Huey Long ranks 4,199 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Jencks (1939), Frank Serpico (1936), Paul Thomas Anderson (1970), Anne Francis (1930), Lindsey Graham (1955), and Alexandra Daddario (1986). After him are Lois Smith (1930), Charlie Logg (1931), Berry Gordy (1929), Andrew Blake (1947), Robert Z. Leonard (1889), and Rainn Wilson (1966).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Huey Long ranks 282. Before him are Richard Mentor Johnson (1780), Frank Carlucci (1930), Horace Greeley (1811), George Andrew Reisner (1867), Kellyanne Conway (1967), and Lindsey Graham (1955). After him are Harry Hopkins (1890), Newt Gingrich (1943), Jeannette Rankin (1880), Sanford B. Dole (1844), Schuyler Colfax (1823), and Lawrence Eagleburger (1930).

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