Blanche Long
Politician, Deceased Person
1902 – 1998
Who was Blanche Long?
Blanche Beulah Revere Long was the first lady of Louisiana from 1939–1940, 1948–1952, and 1956-1960. She was also a "partner in power" to her husband, Governor Earl Kemp Long. From 1956-1963, she was the Democratic national committeewoman from Louisiana. Thereafter, in 1963-1964, she was the campaign manager of Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Julian McKeithen, the presumed heir to Earl Long.
Mrs. Long was born in Covington in St. Tammany Parish, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans, to Robert H. Revere and the former Beulah Talley. The Reveres were a lower middle class family, and Blanche was a public stenographer at the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans. She married Earl Long on August 17, 1932; they had no children. Mrs. Long was protective of her several sisters and her only brother—she helped him to obtain and maintain state employment in Baton Rouge.
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- Born
- Dec 17, 1902
Covington - Spouses
- Religion
- United Methodist Church
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Louisiana
- Died
- May 11, 1998
Metairie
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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