Huey Long

Long's Louisiana governorship from 1928 built thousands of miles of paved roads and bridges, gave free textbooks to schoolchildren and expanded Louisiana State University and Charity Hospital, transforming a poor state's infrastructure. He did it by dominating the legislature, courts and state jobs to an extent many historians call near-dictatorial. His national 'Share Our Wealth' movement threatened Roosevelt from the left before his assassination in 1935. He is the clearest case of results and methods pulling in opposite directions.