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     Humphrey, Hubert H., Jr.
     
     {huhm'-free, hue'-burt}
     
          Hubert Horatio Humphrey, b. Wallace, S.Dak., May 27, 1911, d. Jan.
     13, 1978, was the 38th vice-president of the United States (1965-69) and a
     leader of the prolabor and civil rights elements in the Democratic party.
     A loquacious, ebullient man who preached a "politics of joy," he was
     several times a candidate for the presidency.
     
          Humphrey began working as a pharmacist in his father's drug store. He
     went on to teach political science and held federal administrative posts
     in Minneapolis. He helped unite Minnesota's Farmer-Labor and Democratic
     parties, and with their support he was elected mayor of Minneapolis in
     1945. At the Democratic National Convention in 1948, he sponsored a civil
     rights plank that caused the southern DIXIECRATS to bolt the party.
     Humphrey was elected to the Senate that year and served until 1964, when
     he was chosen as President Lyndon B. Johnson's running mate. After four
     years as vice-president, Humphrey was nominated for the presidency in
     1968. His defense of the Vietnam War cost him the support of the antiwar
     movement, however, and he was narrowly defeated by Richard M. Nixon.
     
          Humphrey returned to the Senate in 1971. In 1972 and 1976 he sought
     the presidential nomination again but lost to George McGovern and Jimmy
     Carter. On his death in 1978, Humphrey was succeeded as senator by his
     wife, Muriel Humphrey.
     
     Bibliography:
     Eisele, Albert, Almost to the Presidency (1972); Humphrey, Hubert,
     Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics (1976).
     

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