Was huey long a preacher

Answer 1

No. Although he spoke in much the same manner sometimes. He was a populist Louisiana politician who grew up poor but became wealthy and powerful. He was the governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and the state's US Senator from 1932 until his assassination in September, 1935.

His proposed "Share The Wealth" social program attracted nationwide attention during the Great Depression. It would have used progressive income taxes to take money from the rich and give it to the working class, as a family version of social security. It presaged the modern welfare system.