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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Minnesota / USHubert Horatio HUMPHREY, Jr.
(1911-1978)
Senate Years of Service:
1949-1964; 1971-1978Party: Democrat; DemocratHUMPHREY, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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