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Huey Long
Childhood Aspirations
Huey Long was born in 1893, the seventh of nine children. He grew up in Louisiana’s Winn Parish, a deeply impoverished region He showed ambition from a young age as a member of the debate team, and expressed a desire to one day fix up and bring new resources to the town he grew up in.
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Louisiana's Huey Long rose to Governor and Senator on a platform of social reform.