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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.
Humphrey was born in a room over his father's drugstore in Wallace, South Dakota. [3] He was the son of Ragnild Kristine Sannes (1883–1973), a Norwegian immigrant, [4] and Hubert Horatio Humphrey Sr. (1882–1949). [5] Humphrey spent most of his youth in Doland, South Dakota, on the Dakota prairie; the town's population was about 600. His ...
In 1978, Muriel Humphrey, wife of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, became the only former second lady to hold public office; after her husband, who had returned to the U.S. Senate after his term as vice president, died in office, she was appointed by Minnesota governor Rudy Perpich to continue her husband's term.
Muriel Humphrey (1912–1998) Democratic: Minnesota: January 25, 1978: Upon taking office November 7, 1978: 286 days 286 days Appointment ended Senate vacant of women (November 7, 1978–December 23, 1978) Nancy Kassebaum (born 1932) Republican: Kansas: December 23, 1978 [1] Upon taking office January 3, 1997: 18 years, 11 days 18 years, 11 ...
This is the last congress to at any point have no female senators (from its beginning, January 3, 1977, until the swearing-in of Muriel Humphrey (D-MN) on January 25, 1978; and again from the departure of both Humphrey and Maryon Allen (D-AL) on November 7, 1978, to the early swearing-in of Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS) on December 23, 1978).
During her time in office, Maryon Allen was one of only two women in the Senate. The other woman Senator, Muriel Humphrey, had been appointed in January 1978 to fill the seat vacated by the death of her husband, Hubert Humphrey. Muriel Humphrey also left the Senate in November 1978, immediately after the election of a successor. [9]
When Hubert Humphrey died in office in January 1978, sitting Governor Rudy Perpich appointed Humphrey's widow, Muriel to sit until a special election could be held later that year. However, Muriel Humphrey opted not to seek election to the seat in her own right, and the DFL nominated former Texas Rangers owner Bob Short to run in the subsequent ...
Muriel Humphrey (1912–1998), U.S. senator from Minnesota and wife of Hubert Humphrey; Philander P. Humphrey (1823–1862), American politician and physician; Skip Humphrey (Hubert H. Humphrey III, born 1942), son of Hubert H. Humphrey II; William E. Humphrey (1862–1934), American politician; Wolcott J. Humphrey (1817–1890), New York state ...