Editing Allen J. Ellender (section)

===State politics===
Ellender was a delegate to the Louisiana constitutional convention in 1921. The constitution produced by that body was retired in 1974, two years after Ellender's death. He served in the [[Louisiana House of Representatives]] from 1924 to 1936. He was floor leader from 1928 to 1932, when in 1929 he worked successfully against the [[Impeachment in the United States|impeachment]] forces, led by [[Ralph Norman Bauer]] and [[Cecil Morgan]], that attempted to remove [[Governor of Louisiana|Governor]] Huey Long for a litany of [[Political corruption|abuses of power]]. Ellender was the House Speaker from 1932 to 1936, when he was elected to the US Senate.