Huey Long was a populist senator from Louisiana who was assassinated. A number of the policies found in the New Deal were taken from his political platform in an effort to decrease his public support.
Long wasn’t a socialist, but a number of the policies he was pushing for were more radical than what was passed in The New Deal. He was also a very ruthless politician that did whatever it took to get shit done. His death prevented a possible 1936 presidential bid against FDR, who was the incumbent.
Just tried to google for it and I’m having trouble finding more details specifically around the FDR connection. Either way, what I read previously was speculative as a direct connection was (unsurprisingly) never proven.
I’m pretty sure I remember reading about it in “Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression” by Alan Brinkley, but could be wrong. Sorry I can’t find more about it online, that’s pretty weird.
Huey Long was a populist senator from Louisiana who was assassinated. A number of the policies found in the New Deal were taken from his political platform in an effort to decrease his public support.
Long wasn’t a socialist, but a number of the policies he was pushing for were more radical than what was passed in The New Deal. He was also a very ruthless politician that did whatever it took to get shit done. His death prevented a possible 1936 presidential bid against FDR, who was the incumbent.
Just tried to google for it and I’m having trouble finding more details specifically around the FDR connection. Either way, what I read previously was speculative as a direct connection was (unsurprisingly) never proven.
I’m pretty sure I remember reading about it in “Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression” by Alan Brinkley, but could be wrong. Sorry I can’t find more about it online, that’s pretty weird.
Decent article with more details on Long’s assassination from wikipedia.