List of nicknames used by Huey Long
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Throughout his political career, Huey Long used nicknames to refer to political opponents. He did this through speeches and cartoons in the Louisiana Progress.[1]
Self-epithets
- Oscar K. Allen – OK Allen[2]
- Marshall Ballard – Lie-to-'em Ballard[3]
- William H. Bennett – Sack of Potatoes[4]
- Hiram Wesley Evans – Imperial Bastard[5]
- John D. Ewing – Squirt, Clown Prince of the Bow Wow Dynasty[6]
- James Farley – Nabob of New York[7]
- Col. Robert Ewing – Colonel Bow Wow, Buck[8]
- Alvin Howard – Kinky[9][10]
- Harold L. Ickes – Chinch bug of Chicago[11]
- Hugh S. Johnson – Sitting Bull Johnson[12]
- Leonard Nicholson – Liverwurst[13]
- John M. Parker – John Mistake Parker, White Wings, Old Sack of Bones[14]
- Esmond Phelps – Shinola, Desperate Esmond, Kingfish Phelps, Old Maid[15]
- Joseph E. Ransdell – Feather Duster, Old Feather Duster, Old Trashy Mouth[16]
- Charles Rightor – Whistle Britches, Old Whistle Britches[17]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt – Prince Franklin, Knight of the Nourmahal, Roosevelt the Little[18][19]
- Theodore Roosevelt – Roosevelt the Great[20]
- Jared Y. Sanders Sr. – Old Buzzard Back[21]
- Jared Y. Sanders Jr. – Little J.Y.[22]
- John P. Sullivan – Bang Tail[23]
- Lee Emmett Thomas – Wet Jug[24]
- Henry A. Wallace – Lord Cornwallace, Ignoramus of Iowa, Russian Commissar of Agriculture[25]
- T. Semmes Walmsley – Turkey Head Walmsley[26]
- Huey Long – Kingfish (from Amos 'n' Andy)[27]