[233] He drew upon continuing support from organized labor and the African-American and Jewish communities, but remained unpopular with college students because of his association with the Vietnam War, even though he had altered his position in the years since his 1968 defeat. [136] Presciently, he noted that a military solution in Vietnam would take several years, well beyond the next election cycle. Humphrey told Ryan, "I want this town cleaned up and I mean I want it cleaned up now, not a year from now or a month from now, right now", and "You take care of the law enforcement. Kennedy's appeal placed Humphrey, who had championed tolerance his entire career, on the defensive, and Kennedy attacked him with a vengeance. [102] Unproven accusations claimed that the Kennedys had bought the West Virginia primary by bribing county sheriffs and other local officials to give Kennedy the vote. Although he lost the November election by less than one percent of the popular vote, with 43.4% for Nixon (31,783,783 votes) to 42.7% (31,271,839) for Humphrey, and 13.5% (9,901,118) for George Wallace. [108] At the 1960 Democratic National Convention, he received 41 votes even though he was no longer a candidate. Senator from Louisiana. "[104] Kennedy defeated Humphrey soundly in West Virginia with 60.8% of the vote. The song goes "Whatever became of Hubert? Roosevelt told audiences, "I don't know where he [Humphrey] was in World War Two," and handed out flyers charging that Humphrey was a draft dodger. "[196], On January 4, 1970, Humphrey said the United States should cease tests of nuclear weapons during the continued conversations for potential strategic arms limitations between the United States and the Soviet Union while speaking to the National Retail Furniture association at the Palmer House. In 1965, Humphrey was made an Honorary Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha, a historically African American fraternity. [8] He earned a pharmacist's license from the Capitol College of Pharmacy in Denver, Colorado (completing a two-year licensure program in just six months),[9] and helped his father run his store from 1931 to 1937. He was a brother of Phi Delta Chi (Theta Chapter), a professional pharmaceutical fraternity and an honorary brother of Alpha Phi Alpha, an African-American fraternity. [23] Humphrey soon became active in Minneapolis politics, and as a result never finished his PhD. On May 3, 1971, after the Americans for Democratic Action adopted a resolution demanding President Nixon's impeachment, Humphrey commented that they were acting "more out of emotion and passion than reason and prudent judgment" and that the request was irresponsible. [20] Also strongly backing the minority plank were Democratic urban bosses like Ed Flynn of the Bronx, who promised the votes of northeastern delegates to Humphrey's platform, Jacob Arvey of Chicago, and David Lawrence of Pittsburgh. [10] He "started basketball games in the church basement ... although his scouts had no money for camp in 1931, Hubert found a way in the worst of that summer's dust-storm grit, grasshoppers, and depression to lead an overnight [outing]."[16]. Humphrey initially planned to skip the primaries, as he had in 1968. [135] He was an early skeptic of the then growing Vietnam War. At one point he helped run his father's pharmacy. Their first meeting was in the Wisconsin Primary, where Kennedy's well-organized and well-funded campaign overcame Humphrey's energetic but poorly funded effort. Marquis Scholar Daniel Rubin ’02 (Canoga Park, Calif.) is researching the American liberal tradition through a biographical study of Hubert H. Humphrey for an EXCEL project this summer. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. is the first collegiate fraternity established for men of African descent. Johnson told Humphrey he would shorten his role within the administration's civil rights policies and pass a portion to Katzenbach, Califano writing that Humphrey agreed to go along with the plan reluctantly. [122] In Minneapolis on October 24, Humphrey listed the censure vote toward Senator Joseph McCarthy, the civil rights bill, and the nuclear test ban treaty as "three great issues of conscience to come before the United States Senate in the past decade" that Goldwater had voted incorrectly on as a Senator. "[79] [250], There is a statue of him in front of the Minneapolis City Hall. [24], In 1934, Humphrey began dating Muriel Buck, a bookkeeper and graduate of local Huron College. "Minneapolis: The Curious Twin," Common Ground. [30] His first two attempts were to join the Navy, first as a commissioned officer and then as an enlisted man. [63] He took office on January 3, 1949, becoming the first Democrat elected senator from Minnesota since before the Civil War. Through most of his years as a U.S. senator and vice president, he lived in a middle-class suburban housing development in Chevy Chase, Maryland. So One Vote Isn't Important? Humphrey told President Carter that the U.S. would enter a period of high unemployment without an economic stimulus and noted that in "every period in our history, a rise in unemployment has been accompanied by a rise in inflation". [72] Although "Humphrey was an enthusiastic supporter of every U.S. war from 1938 to 1978",[73] in February 1960 he introduced a bill to establish a National Peace Agency. [84], In December 1958, after receiving a message from Nikita Khrushchev during a visit to the Soviet Union, Humphrey returned insisting that the message was not negative toward America. [139][140] He also struck up a friendship with Frank Sinatra, who supported his campaign for president in 1968 before his conversion to the Republican party in the early 1970s,[141] and was perhaps most on notice in the fall of 1977 when Sinatra was the star attraction and host of a tribute to a then-ailing Humphrey. [25] They were married from 1936 until Humphrey's death nearly 42 years later. W.E.B. [240], Humphrey attended the May 3, 1977 White House meeting on legislative priorities. Among its most notable members include Dr. Rev. I had lost some of my personal identity and personal forcefulness. [167] With the backing of out-of-state anti-war college students and activists while campaigning in the New Hampshire primary, McCarthy, who was not expected to be a serious contender for the Democratic nomination, nearly defeated Johnson, finishing with a surprising 42% of the vote to Johnson's 49%. The late Dr. Hubert Byron, a dentist by profession and former Mayor of Wrightstown near FortDix, also served as President of the Chamber of Commerce. His hopes rested on challenges to the credentials of some of the McGovern delegates. Being a member of Alpha Phi Alpha means that I am part of something that is bigger than me. Among its most notable members are Dr. Rev. The Senate honored Humphrey by creating the post of Deputy President pro tempore of the Senate for him. [74] With another former pharmacist, Representative Carl Durham, Humphrey cosponsored the Durham-Humphrey Amendment, which amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, defining two specific categories for medications, legend (prescription) and over-the-counter (OTC). [124], The Johnson-Humphrey ticket won the election overwhelmingly, with 486 electoral votes out of 538. "[99] Humphrey believed Roosevelt's draft-dodger claim "had been approved by Bobby [Kennedy], if not Jack". So as the 1964 presidential campaign began, Humphrey made clear his interest in becoming Lyndon Johnson's running mate. [225] Later that month, Humphrey was one of 19 senators to originate a letter stating the expectation of 75 senators that Ford would submit a foreign aid request to Congress meeting the "urgent military and economic needs" of Israel. [26] They had four children: Nancy Faye, Hubert Horatio III, Robert Andrew, and Douglas Sannes. Members of Alpha Phi Alpha include Jamaican Prime Minister and Rhodes Scholar Norman Manley, Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Olympian Jesse Owens, Justice Thurgood Marshall, United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, and Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. Rubin is assisting Arnold Offner, Cornelia F. Hugel Professor of History, with his book-length study entitled Hubert H. Humphrey and the Tragedy of American Liberalism. There were three bills of particular emotional importance to me: the Peace Corps, a disarmament agency, and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Thurgood Marshall, Mayor David Dinkins, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., United States Vice President Hubert Humphrey, John H. Johnson, Duke Ellington, and Jesse Owens. [20] Humphrey became known for his advocacy of liberal causes (such as civil rights, arms control, a nuclear test ban, food stamps, and humanitarian foreign aid), and for his long and witty speeches. [19] From 1943 to 1944, Humphrey was a professor of political science at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where he headed the university's recently created international debate department, which focused on the international politics of World War II and the creation of the United Nations. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon. "[55] Humphrey and his allies succeeded: the convention adopted the pro-civil-rights plank by a vote of 651.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}1/2 to 5821/2. In his autobiography, The Education of a Public Man, Humphrey wrote:[80]. [34] After leaving Macalester in the spring of 1944, Humphrey worked as a news commentator for a Minneapolis radio station until 1945. He was awarded posthumously the Congressional Gold Medal on June 13, 1979 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980. See more » Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles) The Ambassador Hotel was a hotel in Los Angeles, California, and location of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub until it was demolished in 2005. Famous Alphas CIVIC LEADERS W.E.B. [251], For other people named Hubert Humphrey, see, Presidential and vice-presidential ambitions (1952–1964), Vice President-elect of the United States, Deputy President pro tempore of the Senate (1977–1978). [56], After the convention's vote, the Mississippi delegation and half of the Alabama delegation walked out of the hall. [175] By June, McCarthy won in Oregon and Pennsylvania, while Kennedy had won in Indiana and Nebraska, though Humphrey was the front runner as he led the delegate count. On January 13, 1978, he died of bladder cancer at his home in Waverly, Minnesota, at the age of 66. October 16, 1906. Who lived with Mr Edward Norton? [142] In mid-May 1965, Humphrey traveled to Dallas, Texas for an off-the-record discussion with donors of President Johnson's campaign. Humphrey did not enter any of the 13 state primary elections,[181] but won the Democratic nomination at the party convention in Chicago, even though 80 percent of the primary voters had been for antiwar candidates. But it's too financially, politically, and physically debilitating – and I'm just not going to do it. Humphrey attended the November 17, 1976 meeting between President-elect Carter and Democratic congressional leaders in which Carter sought out support for a proposal to have the president's power to reorganize the government reinstated with potential to be vetoed by Congress. [106] By winning West Virginia, Kennedy overcame the belief that Protestant voters would not elect a Catholic to the presidency and thus sewed up the Democratic nomination.[107]. [45] Humphrey and his publicists were proud that the Council on Human Relations brought together individuals of varying ideologies. [7] Because of the family's financial struggles, Humphrey had to leave the University of Minnesota after just one year. [68] The Southerners were also more inclined to accept Humphrey after he became a protégé of Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. CC Poindexter. The President, knowing how I felt, asked me to introduce legislation for all three. [60] The result demonstrated that the Democratic Party could win presidential elections without the "Solid South" and weakened Southern Democrats. [129] In an interview on November 20, Humphrey announced he would resign his Senate seat midway through the following month so that Walter Mondale could assume the position. [27], In 1965, Humphrey was made an Honorary Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha, a historically African American fraternity. Seeks to Divide, Conquer", "A.D.A. Numerous other American leaders are among the men who have adopted the fraternity’s … During this time, he was the lead author of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, introduced the first initiative to create the Peace Corps, sponsored the clause of the McCarran Act that threatened concentration camps for "subversives", proposed making Communist Party membership a felony, and chaired the Select Committee on Disarmament. The people loved it and the press ate it up. [121] In Tampa, Florida on October 18, a week after the resignation of Walter Jenkins amid a scandal, Humphrey said he was unaware of any potential security leaks relating to the case. "[236] In December 1975, a Gallup poll was released showing Humphrey and Ronald Reagan as the leading Democratic and Republican candidates for the following year's presidential election.[237]. Humphrey spent his last weeks calling old political acquaintances. [48], At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, the party platform reflected the division by containing only platitudes supporting civil rights. The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program, which fosters an exchange of knowledge and mutual understanding throughout the world. Ahead of resuming his senatorial duties, Humphrey had a November 16, 1970 White House meeting with President Nixon as part of a group of newly elected senators invited to meet with the president. [182] Humphrey selected as his running mate Senator Ed Muskie of Maine. His delegate strategy succeeded in clinching the nomination, and he chose Senator Edmund Muskie as his running mate. "[192] During October, Humphrey spoke before the AFL-CIO convention delegates, charging President Nixon's economic policies with "putting Americans out of work without slowing inflation. Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. To those who say this civil rights program is an infringement on states' rights, I say this: the time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights! Chester, Lewis, Hodgson, Godfrey, Page, Bruce. Humphrey carried just 13 states with 191 electoral college votes, Nixon carried 32 states and 301 electoral votes, and Wallace carried five states and 46 electoral votes. [226] In August, after the United States Court of Appeals ruled that Ford had no authority to continue levying fees of $2 a barrel on imported oil, Humphrey hailed the decision as "the best news we've heard on the inflation front in a long time" and urged Ford to accept the decision because the price reduction on oil and oil‐related products would benefit the national economy. September 1946, p. 61. Some of my fellow Democrats don't believe this. I said I'd rather work with them than against them."[232]. [188] Later that month, Humphrey returned to Washington after visiting Europe, a week after McCarthy declared he would not seek reelection, Humphrey declining to comment amid speculation he intended to return to the Senate. Price, Nation… He worked for Federal aid to education from 1949, and for a nuclear-test ban treaty from 1956. The democratic process has worked its will."[184]. He crossed at the Theta Chapter in Illinois and has since made his transition into Omega Chapter after working for over 40 years as a professor of dentistry at … Appearance", "Humphrey won't run for President in 1976", "Humphrey's resisting the call of the presidential primaries", "CARTER ASKS LEADERS OF CONGRESS TO HELP IN A REORGANIZATION", "DEMOCRATS CRITICIZE CARTER ON PRIORITIES", "SENATE VOTES FUNDS FOR NEUTRON BOMBS, HEEDING CARTER PLEA", http://articles.latimes.com/1989-09-03/news/vw-2284_1_single-source, "Hubert Humphrey Dies – Events of 1978 – Year in Review", A Childhood Friendship Turns to Love, and Muriel Humphrey Plans to Be Married, "TWIN CITIES CAMPUS MAPS Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs", "Pooch Hall Knows 'A Dog's Purpose', Doug McKeon Joins LBJ", Hubert: The Triumph And Tragedy Of The Humphrey I Knew, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Complete text and audio of Humphrey's 1948 speech at the Democratic National Convention – from AmericanRhetoric.com, Complete text and audio of Humphrey's 1964 speech at the Democratic National Convention – from AmericanRhetoric.com, Oral History Interviews with Hubert H. Humphrey, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. On April 9, 1950, Humphrey predicted that President Truman would sign a $4 billion housing bill and charge Republicans with having removed the bill's main middle-income benefits during Truman's tours of the Midwest and Northwest the following month. One call was to Richard Nixon inviting him to his upcoming funeral, which Nixon accepted. Senator Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia, a leader of Southern Democrats, once remarked to other Senators as Humphrey walked by, "Can you imagine the people of Minnesota sending that damn fool down here to represent them? [197] In February, Humphrey predicted Nixon would withdraw 75,000 or more troops prior to the year's midterm elections and the main issue would be the economy during an interview: "The issue of 1970 is the economy. As a result, Humphrey refused to quit the race and decided to run against Kennedy again in the West Virginia primary. Has anyone heard a thing? ", "Jerry Wagner Political Collection 2006.0234 An Inventory", "This Week in FDA History – Oct. 26, 1951", "A Brief History of the Civil Richts Act of 1964", "Happy birthday 'Happy Warrior': Senate honors Hubert Humphrey", "Humphrey Asks Initiative By U.S. [105] That evening, Humphrey announced that he was leaving the race. L. Edward Purcell wrote that upon returning to the Senate, Humphrey found himself "again a lowly junior senator with no seniority" and that he resolved to create credibility in the eyes of liberals. Humphrey did win some primaries, including those in Ohio,[234] Indiana and Pennsylvania, but was defeated by McGovern in several others, including the crucial California primary. [157] During a December 29 meeting with Prime Minister of Japan Eisaku Satō, Humphrey asked the latter for support on achieving peace in the Vietnam War and said it was a showing of strength that the United States wanted a peaceful ending rather than a display of weakness. I added benzocaine, a local anesthetic, so that even if the sniffles didn't get better, you felt it less. The state, moreover, was a citadel of labor. 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