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Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)
Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978) was raised in South Dakota. He earned a B.A. in political science at the University of Minnesota in 1939 and an M.A. at Louisiana State University in 1940, then returned to Minnesota to teach college. He was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945. As mayor he led the fight at the 1948 Democratic National Convention to adopt a pro-civil rights platform. That same year, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, where he served the next sixteen years. In 1960 he ran for the Democratic presidential nomination but lost to John Kennedy. In 1961, he was elected Democratic whip. He served concurrently as the Democratic floor leader for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Later that year, he was elected vice president on the Democratic ticket with Lyndon Johnson. As vice president, Humphrey worked with Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Medicare. |