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April 6, 1929

On April 6, 1929, huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives. John Turner, John Turner, John Turner would arrive in the same year.

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1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.

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On April 6, 1929

  1. 1929 Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.

    American politician (1893–1935)

    , nicknamed "The Kingfish", was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a United States senator from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. He was a left-wing populist member of the Democratic Party and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression for his vocal criticism of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, which Long deemed insufficiently radical.

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John Turner 1929– Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020)
John Turner 1929– Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020)
John Turner 1929– Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020)
John Turner 1929– Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Canada (died 2020)

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