George S. Long

George Shannon Long, known as Doc Long (September 11, 1883 – March 22, 1958), a member of the powerful Long political dynasty in Louisiana, was a Democratic U.S. representative from the now defunct 8th congressional district from 1953 until his death. Speedy Long of La Salle Parish, another member of the family, once jokingly compared George Long, the older brother of Huey P. Long, Jr., to the family's own "St. Peter".

George Long was the fourth born of ten children born to Huey Pierce "Hugh" Long, Sr. (1852–1937), and the former Caledonia Palestine Tison (1860–1913). He was born and reared in a log cabin in tiny Tunica in West Feliciana Parish near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. When he was five, the Longs moved to Winnfield in Winn Parish, some fifty miles north of Alexandria. He attended the Winnfield public schools. Long attended what was then called "Mount Lebanon College", now the conservative Baptist-affiliated Louisiana College in Pineville in Rapides Parish. Long thereafter taught school for a time in Winn and Grant parishes.