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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States ...
The 1968 presidential campaign of Hubert Humphrey began when Hubert Humphrey, the 38th and incumbent Vice President of the United States, decided to seek the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States on April 27, 1968, after incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson withdrew his bid for reelection to a second full term on March 31, 1968, and endorsed him as his successor.
After Johnson's withdrawal, Vice President Hubert Humphrey announced his candidacy on April 27. [23] Humphrey's campaign concentrated on winning the delegates in non-primary states, where party leaders controlled the delegate votes.
Articles relating to Hubert Humphrey, Vice President of the United States (1911-1978, term 1965-1969) and his term in office.
Humphrey and Muskie together at the Democratic National Convention. The convention was among the most tense and confrontational political conventions ever in American history, marked by fierce debate and protest over the Vietnam peace talks and controversy over the heavy-handed police tactics of the convention's host, Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago.
Humphrey was born Muriel Fay Buck on February 20, 1912, in Huron, South Dakota, daughter of Andrew E. Buck and his wife, the former Jessie Mae Pierce.She attended Huron College and met her future husband; Hubert Humphrey in 1934, when she was twenty-two years old and working as a bookkeeper.
Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III (born June 26, 1942) is an American retired politician who served as attorney general of the state of Minnesota (1983–1999) and State Senator (1973–1983). Humphrey led the Office of Older Americans as the assistant director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978), Vice President of the United States; Jasper Humphrey (1812–1892), American sailor and politician; Lester H. Humphrey (1850–1902), New York state senator; Muriel Humphrey (1912–1998), U.S. senator from Minnesota and wife of Hubert Humphrey; Philander P. Humphrey (1823–1862), American politician and physician