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Hubert Humphrey: A Featured Biography. Known as the “Happy Warrior,” Hubert Humphrey represented Minnesota in the Senate from 1949 to 1964, presided over the Senate as vice president from 1965 to 1969, and then returned to the Senate again in 1971. A dedicated advocate for civil rights, Humphrey gained national attention in 1948 for his ...
Nov 26, 2018 · Hubert Humphrey (born Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.; May 27, 1911–January 13, 1978) was a Democratic politician from Minnesota and the Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson. His relentless push for civil rights and social justice made him one of the most prominent and effective leaders in the U.S. Senate in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Mar 23, 2018 · Vietnam turned America’s leading liberal into a personification of liberalism’s failures. This is the tragedy of Hubert Humphrey and his Vietnam War — one that shapes Americans today.
Jul 27, 2023 · His new book is about the career of young Hubert Humphrey. He was best known as vice president in the 1960s, but this book focuses on his time as mayor of Minneapolis, where he fought bigotry,...
Jun 23, 2023 · Several days after Nazi Germany launched its blitzkrieg against Poland on September 1, 1939, plunging all of Western Europe into conflict, a recent college graduate named Hubert Humphrey rode...
Jul 14, 2023 · The president didn’t want to go too far on civil rights in 1948, fearing it would cost him reelection. But an obscure mayor named Hubert Humphrey changed the race — and his party.
Hubert Humphrey was one of the premier political figures of his time who remained a fixture on the national political scene for nearly three decades. He was a supreme legislator who served twenty-two years in the Senate but never achieved the presidential office he so coveted.
