In Louisiana history and folklore, Huey Pierce Long occupies a very special niche. To be depressingly brief, he was born and reared in north-central Louisiana’s hardscrabble Winn Parish where, in…
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Leonidas Polk was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1806, the son and grandson of Revolutionary War heroes. His family was of Presbyterian Scots-Irish descent and had become successful in…
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