Famous People

Huey P. Long was a powerful politician during the late 1920's.  He was elected governor and became practically a dictator.  His public works and social welfare programs helped the state.  During Long's administration, Louisiana extended its highway and bridge systems, built a new capitol in Baton Rouge, and enlarged the state university.  The state also began giving free textbooks to school children.  Long was elected as a United States senator in 1930.

Andrew Jackson was the first President born in a log cabin. Earlier Presidents had come from well-to-do families. Jackson, the son of poor Scotch-Irish immigrants, became an orphan at 14. He grew up on the frontier of the Carolinas. Then he moved to Tennessee, where he became a successful lawyer and landowner. Jackson won fame as an Indian fighter and as a general in the War of 1812.