<P> In the summer of 1935, Long called for two more special sessions of the legislature; bills were passed in rapid - fire succession without being read or discussed . The new laws further centralized Long's control over the state by creating several new Long - appointed state agencies: a state bond and tax board holding sole authority to approve all loans to parish and municipal governments, a new state printing board which could withhold "official printer" status from uncooperative newspapers, a new board of election supervisors which would appoint all poll watchers, and a State Board of Censors . They also stripped away the remaining lucrative powers of the mayor of New Orleans to cripple the entrenched opposition . Long boasted that he had "taken over every board and commission in New Orleans except the Community Chest and the Red Cross ." </P> <P> Long quarreled with former State Senator Henry E. Hardtner of La Salle Parish . While proceeding to Baton Rouge in August 1935 to confront the state government over a tax matter relating to his Urania Lumber Company, based in Urania, Hardtner, known as "the father of forestry in the South," was killed in a car - train accident . </P> <P> On September 8, 1935, Long was at the State Capitol attempting to oust a long - time opponent, Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy . At 9: 20 p.m., just after passage of the bill effectively removing Pavy, Pavy's son - in - law Carl Weiss, a physician from Baton Rouge, approached Long, and, according to the generally accepted version of events, shot him in the torso with a handgun from four feet away . Long's bodyguards returned fire, killing Weiss instantly . Long died on September 10 at 4: 10 a.m. According to different sources, his last words were either, "I wonder what will happen to my poor university boys", or "I have so much to do ." </P> <P> There has been controversy about whether Long might have survived with better surgical care . </P>

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