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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.
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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1968. Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace.
Pages in category "Candidates in the 1968 United States presidential election" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 election.After winning the Democratic presidential nomination at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey asked the convention to nominate Maine Senator Edmund Muskie as his running mate.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey served as the 38th vice president of the United States (1965–1969), as a United States senator from Minnesota (1949–1964 and 1971–1978), and as the 35th mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota (1945–1948). 1948 United States Senate election in Minnesota: [1] Hubert Humphrey – 729,494 (59.78%)
Humphrey carried Connecticut by a fair margin of 5.16%. This marked the first time since 1888 that Connecticut would back a losing Democrat in a presidential election, and remained the last such occasion until 2000. This was also the last presidential election until Bill Clinton in 1992 that a Democratic candidate would win the state.