Editing Huey Long (section)

===Education and marriage===
In September 1911, Long started attending seminary classes at [[Oklahoma Baptist University]] at the urging of his mother, a devout [[Baptist]]. Living with his brother George, Long attended for only one semester, rarely appearing at lectures. After deciding he was unsuited to preaching, Long focused on law.<ref name=white9>[[#White|White (2006)]], p. 9.</ref> Borrowing one hundred dollars from his brother (which he later lost playing roulette in [[Oklahoma City]]), he attended the [[University of Oklahoma College of Law]] for a semester in 1912.<ref name=white9/> To earn money while studying law part-time, he continued to work as a salesman. Of the four classes Long took, he received one incomplete and three C's. He later confessed he learned little because there was "too much excitement, all those gambling houses and everything".<ref name=white9/>

Long met [[Rose McConnell Long|Rose McConnell]] at a baking contest he had promoted to sell [[Cottolene]] shortening.<ref name=white10-11>[[#White|White (2006)]], pp. 10–11.</ref> The two began a two-and-a-half-year courtship and married in April 1913 at the Gayoso Hotel in [[Memphis, Tennessee]].<ref>[[#Hair|Hair (1996)]], p. 50.</ref> On their wedding day, Long had no cash with him and had to borrow $10 from his fiancée to pay the [[officiant]].<ref name=white11>[[#White|White (2006)]], p. 11.</ref> Shortly after their marriage, Long revealed to his wife his aspirations to run for a statewide office, the governorship, the [[United States Senate|Senate]], and ultimately the presidency.<ref>[[#Brinkley|Brinkley (1983) [1982]]], p. 8.</ref> The Longs had a daughter named Rose (1917–2006) and two sons: [[Russell B. Long]] (1918–2003), who became a U.S. senator, and Palmer Reid Long (1921–2010), who became an oilman in [[Shreveport, Louisiana]].<ref>[[#White|White (2006)]], pp. 38, 272.</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=October 25, 2010|title=Palmer Reid Long, last child of Huey P. Long and devoted Mason|url=https://www.nola.com/news/article_5d4bfd6d-4b06-528e-b08f-32c9952aeeb2.html|work=[[The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate|The Times-Picayune]]|location=New Orleans|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=February 2, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202041535/https://www.nola.com/news/article_5d4bfd6d-4b06-528e-b08f-32c9952aeeb2.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Long enrolled at [[Tulane University Law School]] in [[New Orleans]] in the fall of 1914.<ref name=white9-11>[[#White|White (2006)]], pp. 9–11.</ref> After a year of study that concentrated on the courses necessary for the [[bar exam]], he successfully petitioned the [[Louisiana Supreme Court]] for permission to take the test before its scheduled June 1915 date. He was examined in May, passed, and received his license to practice.<ref name=white11-12>[[#White|White (2006)]], pp. 11–12.</ref> According to Long: "I came out of that courtroom running for office."<ref name="FDR">{{cite news |last=Leuchtenburg|first=William E.|date=Fall 1985|title=FDR And The Kingfish|url=https://www.americanheritage.com/fdr-and-kingfish|work=[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]]|access-date=June 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626100221/https://www.americanheritage.com/fdr-and-kingfish|archive-date=June 26, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>