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In 1959, Mrs. Long angered her husband, when she purchased land near the little-known Hot Wells resort in western Rapides Parish. Moreover, she built a mansion on Capitol Lake in Baton Rouge right behind the new governor's mansion, which the pair would vacate in 1960 because Earl Long was again term-limited by the Louisiana constitution, a restriction which John McKeithen got changed in 1966 through his "Amendment 1," approved on November 8, 1966. Earl Long was furious that Blanche bought the properties without telling him, and he also feared outrage from some of his supporters who did not know that the Longs were wealthy enough to purchase such properties.
Earl and Blanche Long separated after the mental hospital incident, and there was no reconciliation prior to his sudden death in September 1960.
In May 1960, outgoing Governor Long attended the inauguration of his successor, [[Jimmie Davis]], in the company of a 23-year-old stripper and burlesque dancer named Blaze Starr, whom he had first met in 1958. Apparently, Mrs. Long believed that the mental hospital confinement would compel Earl to recognize his troubles and cause him to end his affair with Starr. Dodd, however, discounts the importance of Starr in Long's last months of life and was particularly critical of the 1989 film ''Blaze,'' which he dismissed as "fiction."
Cangelosi in fact tried to get Earl and Blanche reconciled, but the clock ran out on Earl Long. Dodd viewed Cangelosi "one of the finest gentlemen and ablest lawyers in Louisiana."
==The 1960 congressional race==
After he left the governorship in 1960, Earl Long decided to challenge freshman [[U.S. Representative]] Harold Barrett McSween of [[Alexandria, Louisiana|Alexandria]] for renomination. In a hard-fought runoff election, Long defeated McSween though he had trailed him in the first primary. There had been a third primary candidate, former State Representative Ben F. Holt of Rapides Parish, considered a [[conservative]] Democrat. Long scored a pyrrhic victory, for he was dead a few days later, and the Democratic State Central Committee returned McSween to the ballot as the unopposed Democratic nominee in the [[general election]]. In a way, one may say that the committee nullified the results of Long's last campaign.
