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Hubert Humphrey. This was the dilemma for Hubert H. Humphrey in 1968: As he ran for president, he had to run from the president - meaning his president, Lyndon B. Johnson. Humphrey didn't run quite far enough. Humphrey was Johnson's vice president. He jumped into the Democratic nomination contest after Johnson shocked the nation with news that ...
Humphrey Sr. was a pharmacist whose forebearers had arrived in the United States many generations before his birth. Christine and Hubert Sr. married in 1906 and had four children; Hubert Humphrey Jr. was their second child. When Hubert was four years old, his family moved to Dolan, South Dakota, a small town on the plains where his father owned ...
Jul 17, 2023 · On the torrid afternoon of July 6, 1948, Hubert Humphrey departed one kind of inferno to plunge into another. Humphrey, the brash young mayor of Minneapolis, was leaving a city reeling under a 100 ...
Dec 20, 2023 · Correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and other material compiled by William Connell, executive assistant to Hubert Humphrey (1959-1972). The papers document Humphrey's political activities during the 1960s and early 1970s when he was a U.S. senator from Minnesota, vice president of the U.S., and Democratic candidate for president.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was the thirty-eighth Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon Johnson. Humphrey served a total of five terms as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor ...
Hubert Humphrey was born in Wallace, South Dakota in 1911 to a homemaker and a small-town pharmacist. He entered the University of Minnesota in 1929, but because of his family’s financial struggles had to leave after his freshman year. Instead of pursuing a college degree, he completed a two-year, pharmaceutical licensure program in just six ...
To ardent liberals, Humphrey—until recently denounced by rightists as a dangerous radical—was becoming the very image of the establishment. United States presidential election of 1968, American presidential election held on November 5, 1968, in which Republican Richard M. Nixon defeated Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey.
