Huey Long

Thomas Harry Williams was an award-winning historian at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge whose career began in 1941 and extended for thirty-eight years until his death at the age of seventy. A popular faculty member, Williams is perhaps best known for his American Civil War study, Lincoln... and His Generals, a "Book of the Month" selection from 1952, and his Huey Long, the definitive study of Huey Pierce Long, Jr., 1970 winner of both the National Book Award in History and Biography. and the Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Williams was born in Vinegar Hill Township, Jo Daviess County, Illinois, to William D. Williams and the former Emma Necollins. His father died when Williams was a small boy, and he was reared by an uncle and grandmother. He was educated in the schools of the village of Hazel Green, Wisconsin. He procured his bachelor of arts degree in 1931 from the University of Wisconsin–Platteville in Platteville. He thereafter obtained his Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1932 and 1937, respectively.
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