U.S. Senator Russell Billiu Long

Long was elected in a 1948 special election one day before his thirtieth birthday and took office on December 31. His father was Huey Long. He chaired the Finance Committee from 1966 to 1981, and he created the Earned Income Tax Credit and was the architect of employee stock ownership plans. His record on race was mixed: he voted to outlaw the poll tax, signed the Southern Manifesto in 1956 and later repudiated it, and voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act without joining the filibuster. He retired in January 1987 and died in 2003.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Capitol Park Museum — 2.4 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 2.4 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• Old State Capitol — 2.6 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 3.5 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Baton Rouge National Cemetery — 1.3 mi
• Magnolia Cemetery — 1.4 mi
• Baton Rouge Pool Swim-In — 2.1 mi
• Ceremonial Indian Mound — 2.3 mi