Education
Princeton University. Washington & Jefferson College.
United States representative politician
Princeton University. Washington & Jefferson College.
Long became Chairman of the subcommittee on Foreign Operations of the House Appropriations Committee. In this role he supervised the foreign aid budget. Long"s support for the anti-Soviet Mujahideen was recounted in the film Charlie Wilson"s War, in which Long was played by Ned Beatty.
Long was defeated for re-election by Republican Helen Delich Bentley in 1984.
Long was born in South Bend, Indiana. He received his bachelor"s degree from Washington and Jefferson College in 1932, and his master"s degree and Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1935 and 1938, respectively.
He also served in the United States Navy during World World War World War II
He was a former member of the United States Council of Economic Advisers to the President (1953-1954 and 1956-1957) and in the 1930s was a professor of economics at Wesleyan University.