How did Huey P. Long die?

Answer 1

He died in a Baton Rouge hospital (Our Lady of the Lake) on September 10, 1935, just over a day after being shot in the Louisiana capitol building, where he was attending a session of the legislature.

Answer 2

On September 8, 1935, Huey Long was shot in the Louisiana Capitol by a lone gunman, Dr. Carl Weiss, the son-in-law of Judge Benjamin Pavy, a political opponent of Long.

During a late evening session in the capitol building, with Judge Pavy's position being considered in the legislature, Weiss approached Long and shot him once in the right side at point blank range with a 5.32 mm revolver. A second shot hit the wristwatch of one of Long's bodyguards. Weiss was gunned down by Long's bodyguards, including two who were armed with automatic machine guns. Thirty bullets hit Weiss in the chest, twenty-nine in the back, and two in the hip.

Huey Long staggered down the stairway to the main floor, and fell into the office of Public Service Commissioner James O'Connor. Long blurted out "Jimmy, my boy, I've been shot!" Long had been mortally wounded, but survived more than a day, until the morning of September 10. At 4:10 a.m., Huey Long died. His last words, "God don't let me die, I have so much to do!"

Huey Long was laid to rest in a huge marble tomb, on the capital grounds he help to design.