Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson January 20, 1965 until January 20, 1969
HUMPHREY, Hubert Horatio, Jr., (husband
of Muriel Buck Humphrey), a Senator from Minnesota and a Vice President of the
United States; born in Wallace, Codington County, S.Dak., May 27, 1911; attended
the public schools of Doland, S.Dak., where his family had moved; graduated from
Capitol College of Pharmacy, Denver, Colo. 1933 and the University of Minnesota
1939; earned a graduate degree from Louisiana State University 1940; pharmacist
with Humphrey Drug Co., Huron, S.Dak., 1933-1937; assistant instructor of
political science at Louisiana State University 1939-1940 and University of
Minnesota 1940-1941; State director of war production training and reemployment
and State chief of Minnesota war service program 1942; assistant director, War
Manpower Commission 1943; professor in political science at Macalester (Minn.)
College 1943-1944; radio news commentator 1944-1945; mayor of Minneapolis
1945-1948; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948; reelected
in 1954, and 1960, and served from January 3, 1949 until December 29, 1964, when
he resigned to become Vice President; Democratic whip 1961-1964; well-known for
his long and witty speeches on the Senate floor, he was known as ’the Happy
Warrior’; chairman, Select Committee on Disarmament (Eighty-fourth and
Eighty-fifth Congresses); elected Vice President of the United States on the
Democratic ticket with Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and served from January 20, 1965,
until January 20, 1969; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President of the
United States 1968; resumed teaching at Macalester College and the University of
Minnesota 1969-1970; chairman, board of consultants, Encyclopedia Britannica
Educational Corp.; elected in 1970 to the United States Senate; reelected in
1976 and served from January 3, 1971, until his death in office; the post of
Deputy President pro tempore of the Senate was created for him and he held it
from January 5, 1977, until his death in Waverly, Minn., January 13, 1978;
chairman, Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-fourth Congress); unprecedented
sessions of the House and Senate were held in his honor in October 1977, when he
was gravely ill; lay in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol; interment in
Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.-- Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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