1930's Government and Politics | "Carry Out the Command of the Lord"

Speech

By: Huey Long

Date: February 5, 1934

Source: Long, Huey. "Carry Out the Command of the Lord." February 5, 1934. Huey Long's Senate Speeches. Social Security On Line. Social Security Administration. Available online at http://www.ssa.gov/history/longsen.html; website home page: http://www.ssa.gov (accessed August 29, 2002).

About the Author: Huey Long (1893–1935) became governor of Louisiana in 1928 and exercised nearly dictatorial control over the state even after he was elected to the United States Senate in 1932. Long gained support from the rural whites of Louisiana, the poor, hardscrabble stock from which he came, through his dynamic and flamboyant style, in part by taking on the wealthy elite, and in part by delivering the basic services to a population that had been ignored by...