Readers of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, however, gained a jaded and caricatural impression of Huey from the pen of Warren. Stark, the demagogic governor of an unnamed provincial state, is neither developed as a complex primary protagonist nor created in Huey’s personal image. The character Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men (1946) had been inspired by Huey, Warren acknowledged, while he was observing Long across town as a member of the English faculty at Louisiana State University. Huey’s reputation as a populist had taken a hit at the hands of a novelist. By 1948, after eight years at sea, Huey’s survivors seemed moribund in the wake of his choppy memory. In 1944 the Long faction’s ticket, which included Earl as a candidate for lieutenant governor again, ran a poor second. Odds indicated that Longism in Louisiana politics might have perished, too.Įarl Long, who had succeeded to the governorship in 1939 from the office of lieutenant governor when the governor resigned, lost the gubernatorial election to a reform candidate in 1940. The political faction bearing his name, championed by his younger brother Earl, lost the statehouse in Baton Rouge 12 years after Huey had won it from an entrenched oligarchy. Senate, with whom he shared a mutual disdain, Huey Long suffered a posthumous infirmity. 10, 1935, while seeking the presidency and overseeing Louisiana’s government from the U. Within five years of his death at age 42, on Sept.
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