After Old Abe survived the war, a keeper took take care of him in the Capitol basement. In 1881, paints and oils kept in a room near Old Abe caught fire. The eagle inhaled smoke and died about a ...

Huey Long ran roughshod through Louisiana politics for a decade, first as governor and then U.S. senator before he was gunned down inside the state Capitol in Baton Rouge in 1935. Long connected ...