Rose McConnell Long

Rose McConnell Long ( born April 8, 1892 in Greensburg, Indiana; † May 27, 1970 in Boulder, Colorado) was an American politician. She sat from 31 January 1936 to January 2, 1937, the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate.

Rose McConnell was born 1892 in Greensburg, Decatur County. 1901 she moved with her parents to Shreveport ( Louisiana). She attended a public school and later worked as a stenographer. In 1913 she married Huey Pierce Long, whom she had previously met at a baking contest. Together they had a daughter, Rose, and two sons, Russell and Palmer. Russell Long was also later a politician.

After the assassination of her husband in 1935, she was proposed as his successor in the U.S. Senate. She won on April 21, 1936, the special elections to the new appointments to the vacant Senate seat has become by Long's death. However, she declined to run for re-election, and retired from public life to Shreveport back.