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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MinnesotaHUMPHREY, Hubert Horatio, Jr.
(1911—1978)
Senate Years of Service:
1949-1964; 1971-1978
Party:
Democrat; Democrat
HUMPHREY, Hubert Horatio, Jr., (husband of Muriel Buck Humphrey), a Senator from Minnesota and a Vice President of the United States; born in Wallace, Codington County, S.Dak., May 27, 1911; attended the public schools of Doland, S.Dak., where his family had moved; graduated from Capitol College of Pharmacy, Denver, Colo., 1933 and the University of Minnesota 1939; earned a graduate degree from Louisiana State University 1940; pharmacist with Humphrey Drug Co., Huron, S.Dak., 1933-1937; assistant instructor of political science at Louisiana State University 1939-1940 and University of Minnesota 1940-1941; State director of war production training and reemployment and State chief of Minnesota war service program 1942; assistant director, War Manpower Commission 1943; professor in political science at Macalester College (Minn.) 1943-1944; radio news commentator 1944-1945; mayor of Minneapolis 1945-1948; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948; reelected in 1954, and 1960 and served from January 3, 1949, until December 29, 1964, when he resigned to become Vice President; Democratic whip 1961-1964; known in the Senate as “the Happy Warrior”; chairman, Select Committee on Disarmament (Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth Congresses); elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and served from January 20, 1965, until January 20, 1969; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President of the United States 1968; resumed teaching at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota 1969-1970; chairman, board of consultants, Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp.; elected in 1970 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1976 and served from January 3, 1971, until his death in office; the post of Deputy President pro tempore of the Senate was created for him and he held it from January 5, 1977, until his death in Waverly, Minn., January 13, 1978; chairman, Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-fourth Congress); unprecedented sessions of the House and Senate were held in his honor in October 1977, when he was gravely ill; lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, January 14-15, 1978; interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.; posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on June 9, 1980.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Humphrey, Hubert. The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics
. 1976. New ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991; Thurber, Timothy N. The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Amrine, Michael. This is Humphrey: The Story of the Senator
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1960.
Berman, Edgar. Hubert: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Humphrey I Knew
. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1979.
Brauer, Ralph. “The Tragedy of Citizen Humphrey.” Midwest Quarterly
32 (Spring 1991): 338-54.
Cohen, Dan. Undefeated: The Life of Hubert H. Humphrey
. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications, 1978.
Curtin, Mary Therese. “Hubert H. Humphrey and the Politics of the Cold War, 1943-1954.” Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1986.
Eisele, Albert. Almost to the Presidency: A Biography of Two American Politicians
. Blue Earth, MN: Piper Co., 1972.
Engelmayer, Sheldon D., and Robert J. Wagman, comps. Hubert Humphrey: The Man and His Dream
. New York: Methuen, 1978.
Garrettson, Charles Lloyd, III. “Home of the Politics of Joy: Hubert H. Humphrey in South Dakota.” South Dakota History
20 (Fall 1990): 165-84.
___. Hubert H. Humphrey: The Politics of Joy
. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1992.
Gorey, Hays. “ ‘I’m a Born Optimist’: The Era of Hubert H. Humphrey.” American Heritage
29 (December 1977): 60-68.
Griffith, Winthrop. Humphrey, a Candid Biography
. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1965.
Halamandaris, Val J. “Hubert H. Humphrey.” In Profiles In Caring: Advocates for the Elderly
, pp. 295-319. Washington: Caring Publishing, 1991.
Hall, Perry D., comp. The Quotable Hubert H. Humphrey
. Anderson, SC: Droke House, 1967.
Haynes, John Earl. “Farm Coops and the Election of Hubert Humphrey to the Senate.” Agricultural History
57 (April 1983): 201-11.
Humphrey, Hubert H. Beyond Civil Rights: A New Day of Equality
. New York: Random House, 1968.
___. The Cause Is Mankind: A Liberal Program for Modern America
. New York: Praeger, 1964.
___. The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics.
Edited by Norman Sherman. 1976. New ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
___. “Peace and Disarmament.” In The Crossroad Papers: A Look into the American Future
, edited by Hans J. Morgenthau, pp. 127-40. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1965.
___. The Political Philosophy of the New Deal
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970. Humphrey’s Master’s thesis (Louisiana State University).
___. “The Senate on Trial.” American Political Science Review
44 (September 1950): 650-60.
___. War on Poverty
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
___, ed. School Desegration: Documents and Commentaries
. New York: Crowell, 1964.
Manfred, Frederick. “Hubert Horatio Humphrey: A Memoir.” Minnesota History
46 (Fall 1978): 86-101.
Mann, Robert. The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights
. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1996.
Martin, Ralph G. A Man for All People: Hubert Humphrey
. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1968.
Morgan, Iwan W. “Hubert Humphrey’s Last Hurrah: The 1977 Senate Leadership Election and the Decline of the New Deal Tradition.” Mid-America: An Historical Review
79 (Fall 1997): 287-317.
Reichard, Gary W. “Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey,” Minnesota History
56 (Summer 1998), 50-67.
Ryskind, Allan H. Hubert: An Unauthorized Biography of the Vice President
. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1968.
Sherrill, Robert, and Harry W. Ernst. The Drugstore Liberal
. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968.
Solberg, Carl. Hubert Humphrey: A Biography
. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984.
Stewart, John C. “Independence and Control: The Challenge of Senatorial Party Leadership.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1968. The author, an assistant to Humphrey during the mid 1960s, includes an account of Humphrey’s work as floor manager of the 1964 Civil Rights bill.
Stuhler, Barbara. “A Tale of Two Democrats: Hubert H. Humphrey and Eugene J. McCarthy.” In Ten Men of Minnesota and American Foreign Policy 1898-1968
, pp. 194-251. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1973.
Thurber, Timothy N.The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Services Held in the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, Together with Remarks Presented in Eulogy of Hubert H. Humphrey, Late a Senator from Minnesota
. 95th Cong., 2d sess., 1978. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1978.
Wilson, Paula. “Hubert Humphrey’s Civil Rights Rhetoric: 1948-1964.” Ph.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1990.
Zehnpfennig, Gladys. Hubert H. Humphrey, Champion of Human Rights
. Minneapolis: T.S. Denison, 1966.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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