Skip Humphrey
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| 27th Attorney General of Minnesota | |
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In office January 3, 1983 – January 6, 1999 |
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| Governor |
Rudy Perpich Arne Carlson |
| Preceded by | Warren Spannaus |
| Succeeded by | Mike Hatch |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Hubert Horatio Humphrey III June 26, 1942 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Jeffery |
| Alma mater |
American University University of Minnesota, Twin Cities |
| Religion | Methodism |
Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III (born June 26, 1942) is a former Minnesota politician who served as Attorney General of the state from 1983 to 1999. He was a state senator from 1973 to 1983. Humphrey now leads the Office of Older Americans as the Assistant Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
A Democrat, Humphrey is the son of the late Vice President Hubert Humphrey and the late U.S. Senator Muriel Humphrey Brown. He was the Democratic candidate for Minnesota governor in the hotly contested three-way election of 1998.
Humphrey attended American University, where he was a member of Alpha Sigma Phi, Beta Chi chapter, and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School.
Humphrey was elected to the Minnesota Senate in 1972 and served as a state senator from 1973 to 1983. He was elected Minnesota Attorney General in 1982, one of the DFL Party's most popular candidates ever in terms of popular vote. He served in the office for four consecutive terms, from 1983 to 1999.
In 1988, he ran for the same US Senate seat that his father and his mother previously held, but was defeated by incumbent Independent-Republican Senator David Durenberger. Despite this loss, Humphrey remained well regarded in Minnesota political circles and around the country: he served as president of the National Association of Attorneys General, and in 1996 President Bill Clinton gratefully welcomed him as the state chairperson of his reelection campaign.
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