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Senate Years of Service: 1936-1937 Party: Democrat
LONG, Rose McConnell, (wife of Huey Pierce Long, mother of Russell B. Long, sister-in-law of George S. Long, and cousin of Gillis W. Long),
a Senator from Louisiana; born in Greensburg, Decatur County, Ind.,
April 8, 1892; moved with her parents to Shreveport, La., in 1901; attended the
public schools of Shreveport; appointed on January 31, 1936, and subsequently
elected on April 21, 1936, in a special election as a Democrat to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Huey P.
Long, and served from January 31, 1936, to January 3, 1937; was not a candidate
for reelection in 1936 for the full term; retired from public life to
Shreveport, La.; died in Boulder, Colo., May 27, 1970; interment in Forrest
Park Cemetery, Shreveport, La.
BibliographyRose McConnell Long, in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 2006.
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