Around this time, he became well known for his vocal criticism of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Roosevelt’s New Deal, which he felt was “insufficiently radical.” In 1934, he proposed the alternative “Share Our Wealth” program, which called for massive federal spending, a wealth tax, and wealth redistribution. In 1932, at the age of thirty-seven, Huey was elected to the U.S. Unless you limit the size of the big, it necessarily means that the small people must become more and more impoverished as time goes on.”
No man must be allowed to have too little. He was swept into office, thanks in part to his philosophy of redistributing American wealth.ĭuring one speech, Huey said: “No man must be allowed to have too much. In 1928, when he was thirty-four, he was elected governor of Louisiana. He completed just one year of law school, yet by the age of twenty-nine, he had already argued two cases successfully before the U.S. His “down home style” contrasted sharply with the brilliant legal mind. Huey, also known as the Kingfish, came to prominence in the 1920s.
But to others, he was a dangerous radical. It is believed that, had he lived, he would have become president. Like the ones since, Huey’s assassination rocked the United States to its foundation. Kennedy, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and Senator Robert Kennedy. Details: Louisiana senator Huey Long was assassinated at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge on September 8, 1935, decades before the political assassinations of President John F.
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