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Huey Pierce Long Jr. nicknamed "the Kingfish," was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to prominence during the Great Depression for his criticism of FDR's New Deal policies which he saw as insufficiently radical.
The bourgeois press and historians have attacked his legacy for his defense of the common man against the capitalist order, so much so that accusations of "fascism" have been waged against him. These accusations are easily debunked when considering his positive relationship with the Black community, so much so that Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Party was named after Huey Long.[1]