Earl long speech legislature 1959
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It was at this point that the legislators must have decided he’d gone off his crumpet. Old Earl, a Southern politician, was taking the Fourteenth Amendment’s position that “no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States . . . nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” So sporadic was my interest in Southern matters then that I did not know the federal Department of Justice had already taken action against Washington Parish, over near the Mississippi line, because the exponents of the law that Earl didn’t like had scratched the names of 1,377 Negro voters, out of a total of 1,510, from the rolls. (When, in January, 1960, six months later, United States District Judge J. Skelly Wright, a Louisianian, ordered the Negroes’ names put back on the rolls, no dispatch clapped old Earl on the back for having championed them. Nor, in February, when Louisiana appealed Judge Wright’s decision and the Supreme Court sustained it, did anybody give the old battler credit for having battled. The main feature of the civil-rights bill passed by this Congress was, in fact, an affirmation of the Earl Long argument that led to his sojourn in Texas, but nobody recalled the trouble that his
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Earl Kemp Long served as governor of Louisiana for three nonconsecutive terms—from 1939 to 1940, from 1948 to 1952, and from 1956 to 1960—endearing himself to his constituents with the folksy nickname “Uncle Earl.” Though he was always in the shadow of his flamboyant older brother, Louisiana governor and US senator Huey Long, Earl Long’s march through Louisiana politics was characterized by his colorful verbal expressiveness and eccentric behavior—he was briefly admitted to a mental hospital in 1959 and was unabashed in his affair with a Bourbon Street stripper, Blaze Starr. Nonetheless, Long helped bring much-needed social reform to the Pelican State. He established an impressive record that included progressivism in the field of civil rights—a particularly unique achievement for a white southern politician in the mid-twentieth century. Long’s personal indiscretions, however, were also an important part of his record. In the end, voters knew what they would get from Long—a crusader for the common man, a heavy dose of entertainment, and an unpredictable personality that often produced unwanted results.
Early Life
Born on August 26, 1895, in Winn Parish to livestock farmer Huey Pierce Long Sr. and Caledonia Tison, Earl Kemp Long enjoyed a peaceful childhood in a large fam
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Politics, Louisiana Style
Angus Lind recalls flaming Louisiana politicians and bottle up assorted characters, and a few nevertobeforgotten quotes unapproachable the state’s history.
Angus Lind recalls flaming Louisiana politicians and bottle up assorted characters, and a few nevertobeforgotten quotes unapproachable the state’s history.
In a state renounce has produced state legislators, two governors, and politicians and governmental hacks nicknamed Speedy, Cardinal, Pappy, Bubba, Puggy, Person, Taddy, Coalblack Cat, Chunk Earl favour The Chenfish, Louisiana government and politicians were, commerce and tender to excellence legendary, their quotes farreaching from pleasant to sidesplitting to outrageous.
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