Huey Long to Get Delayed Diploma
Huey Long is going to graduate from high school--more than half a century after he was assassinated.
Louisiana’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted unanimously Thursday to approve the honorary degree from Winnfield High School, in Long’s hometown about 200 miles north of Baton Rouge.
Long’s son will accept the diploma on Aug. 30--the 100th anniversary of his father’s birth--as part of the dedication of the Louisiana Political Museum in Winnfield.
Although he never finished high school, the elder Long passed the Louisiana bar examination after studying for 10 months at the University of Oklahoma and Tulane law schools. He was governor from 1928 to 1932 and a U.S. senator when he was gunned down in the Louisiana Capitol in September, 1935.
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