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Hubert H. Humphrey

Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey, half-length portrait, facing front.tif
38th Vice President of the United States
In office
January 20, 1965 – January 20, 1969
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Preceded by Lyndon B. Johnson
Succeeded by Spiro Agnew
1st Deputy President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate
In office
January 3, 1977 – January 13, 1978
Leader Robert Byrd
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by George J. Mitchell (1987)
14th Senate Majority Whip
In office
January 3, 1961 – December 29, 1964
Leader Mike Mansfield
Preceded by Mike Mansfield
Succeeded by Russell B. Long
United States Senator
from Minnesota
In office
January 3, 1971 – January 13, 1978
Preceded by Eugene McCarthy
Succeeded by Muriel Humphrey
In office
January 3, 1949 – December 29, 1964
Preceded by Joseph H. Ball
Succeeded by Walter Mondale
35th Mayor of Minneapolis
In office
July 2, 1945 – November 30, 1948
Preceded by Marvin Kline
Succeeded by Eric G. Hoyer
Personal details
Born Hubert Horatio Humphrey
(1911-05-27)May 27, 1911
Wallace, South Dakota, U.S.
Died January 13, 1978(1978-01-13) (aged 66)
Waverly, Minnesota, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Muriel Buck
Children 4 (including (Skip)
Education University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (BA)
Capitol College of Pharmacy
Louisiana State University, Baton Rogue (MA)
Signature
External image
HHH Statue, link from the panoramio web site.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election, losing to the Republican nominee Richard M. Nixon.

Born in Wallace, South Dakota in 1911, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota before earning his pharmacist license from the Capitol College of Pharmacy in 1931. He helped run his father's pharmacy until 1937 when he returned to academia, graduating with a master's degree from Louisiana State University in 1940, where he was a political science instructor. He returned to Minnesota during World War II and became a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration. He was then appointed state director of the Minnesota war service program before becoming the assistant director of the War Manpower Commission. In 1943, Humphrey became a professor of Political Science at Macalester College and ran a failed campaign for mayor of Minneapolis. Humphrey helped found the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) in 1944, and in 1945, became the DFL candidate for mayor of Minneapolis for a second time, winning with 61% of the vote. Humphrey served as mayor from 1945 to 1948, he was reelected and became the co-founder of the liberal anti-communist group Americans for Democratic Action in 1947.


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