High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! George Shannon "Doc" Long (September 11, 1883 -- March 22, 1958) was a member of the powerful Long political dynasty in Louisiana and a Democratic U.S. representative from the defunct Eighth Congressional District from 1953-1958. The late Speedy O. 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".