Huey Pierce Long

Huey Long was shot in the Louisiana capitol on September 8, 1935 by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss and died two days later. Whether Weiss's bullet or the return fire of Long's bodyguards struck him is still unclear. By then Long had resigned the governorship in January 1932 for the U.S. Senate, and in 1934 he had launched his Share Our Wealth Society. He was born in Winnfield on August 30, 1893, and this monument stands on the courthouse lawn in the town where he began.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cane River Creole National Historical Park — 28 mi
  Oakland and Magnolia, two Cane River cotton plantations kept as they stood, told through the enslaved families who worked them, the 1864 and 1804 freedom seekers and the tenant farmers who stayed into the 1960s.
• Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site — 29 mi
  A reconstruction of the 1716 French fort beside the Natchitoches village, with a palisade of nearly 2,000 pine logs, a chapel and storeroom, and living-history programs, open Wednesday to Sunday.
• Natchitoches Historic District — 29 mi
  The riverfront blocks of the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, founded in 1714 at a Natchitoches village, with a brick-paved Front Street, Cane River frontage and the largest bousillage construction in the South.
• Melrose Plantation — 30 mi
  The Cane River estate built on land granted to Louis Metoyer, son of Marie Thérèse Coincoin, with the Yucca House and African House, later an artists' retreat; guided tours Thursday to Sunday.

More markers nearby

• Bank of Winnfield & Law Office of Huey P. Long — steps away
• Earl Kemp Long — 0.5 mi
• Long Home Site — 0.5 mi
• Gum Springs Bombing Range Accident Memorial — 8.6 mi