On May 22, 1939, Earl Long, present Lieutenant Governor for the state of Louisiana, openly declared that he was going to run for Governor. On June 26, 1939, Earl Long took the oath of office as Governor of Louisiana. In April of 1952, it was rumored that Earl Long had large sums of cash in his possession that had been contributed as political contributions made to the political party, but that Long was holding on to it for his personal use after he left office. The informant felt this money would not be declared for Federal or State income tax purposes. In 1956, soon after he was elected Governor again, slot machines began to appear in Jefferson Parish, LA. On September 2, 1959, Blaze Starr, a former Bourbon Street Strip Tease Artist returned to New Orleans where she visited with Governor Earl Long.
In June 959, his nephew, Senator Russell B. Long, Earl Long's wife and his political associates had him committed to the to psychiatric ward of John Scaly Hospital in Galveston, Texas. When he was released, he returned to Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. He agreed to stay in the Ochsner Foundation Clinic in New Orleans. He stayed less that 24 hours when he took off to Baton Rouge. He was stopped by State Troopers and taken to the court house where he was declared suffering from paranoic schizophrenia.
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