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  Britain.tv Wikipedia - Hubert Humphrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Humphrey never finished his Ph.D., and for this reason he was not allowed to teach in the political science department when he returned to the university after losing the 1968 presidential election to Richard Nixon.
Humphrey was 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.
Humphrey's wife, Muriel Humphrey, was appointed by the state governor to finish her husband's term in office.
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 Hubert H. Humphrey
A delegate to the 1948 Democratic national convention, Humphrey was instrumental, through his evangelical oratory, in having the convention override the platform committee and include President Truman’s civil rights proposals in the platform.
Humphrey's convention triumph preceded his election to the Senate that year and gave him a reputation as a fire-breathing Midwestern liberal.
Humphrey carried 13 states, mostly in the East, and the District of Columbia, for 191 electoral votes.
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 Hubert H. Humphrey - dKosopedia
Hubert Horatio Humphrey was born in South Dakota in 1911, Humphrey first gained political office as mayor of Minneapolis in 1945.
Humphrey gave a stirring speech in favor of a strong civil rights plank in the Democratic platform during the 1948 Democratic National Convention, causing many southern delegates to walk out in protest.
During his senatorial career Humphrey was regarded as one of the most liberal members of the senate and worked for housing, social welfare and civil rights.
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 Hubert Humphrey - MSN Encarta
Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978), 38th vice president of the United States (1965-1969).
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr., was born on May 27, 1911, in Wallace, South Dakota.
Humphrey was reelected to the Senate in 1970 and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972.
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 Commemorative Chairs: Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey expanded his foreign policy experience with work on the creation of the Peace Corps, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (which outlawed the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere).
Humphrey’s run against Richard Nixon was hard fought, but he was hamstrung by the anti-war movement, that protested the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Humphrey returned to the Senate after the 1970 election, and made another bid for the Presidential nomination in 1974, but his professional political career was all but finished.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
Humphrey's convention triumph preceded his election to the U.S. Senate that year and gave him a reputation as a fire-breathing Midwestern liberal.
Humphrey held his delegates through a stormy Democratic convention that included a fight over the Vietnam plank in the platform.
Humphrey's cancer proved to be terminal, but he exhibited unusual fortitude and good cheer as he faced the end.
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 Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Humphrey was in the Senate from 1949 to 1965 and from 1971 to January 1978.
Humphrey was not concerned about the rules of the Senate nor the fact that he did not have the support of the inner circle in the Senate.
Humphrey became the Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1968, but during the national convention the streets of Chicago were filled with anti-war rioters.
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 Hubert Humphrey
American statesman Hubert Horatio Humphrey was born in Wallace, South Dakota, and educated at universities in Minnesota and Louisiana.
Humphrey became known as a liberal, especially on issues of civil rights.
Humphrey continued with his Senate career and was viewed as an elder statesman of American politics for the rest of his life.
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 Amazon.com: Hubert Humphrey: A Biography: Books: Carl Solberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Hubert Humphrey, who served in the US Senate for 24 years and dominated that body as few men ever have, has long been a greatly underrated figure by political biographers and historians.
Humphrey was born in 1911 in the tiny town of Doland (population, about 700) on the isolated South Dakota prairie.
Humphrey refused to be intimidated and stood his ground, eventually winning friends among liberal Northern Democrats and the respect and affection of even the Southerners.
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 MNHS.ORG | Library | History Topics | Hubert H. Humphrey
Hubert H. Humphrey burst onto the Minnesota political scene in 1945, when he was elected mayor of Minneapolis.
Humphrey served in the Senate until he was selected to be Lyndon Johnson's running mate in the presidential campaign of 1964.
Humphrey spoke for only eight minutes, but his speech turned the tide and the convention delegates voted to support the course proposed by Humphrey.
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 Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey was an active member of the Democratic Party and worked as campaign manager for Franklin D. Roosevelt in Minnesota during the 1944 presidential election.
Humphrey was elected to the Senate in 1948.
Humphrey was defeated by John F. Kennedy in his attempt to become the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 1960.
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Humphrey's dilemma was to somehow strike a balance between the loyalty he had promised and the independence he so desperately needed.
Deviating from his policy of not disagreeing with the President, Humphrey made the attempt to appear his own man. Symbolically, Humphrey spoke from a lectern which did not bear the seal of the Vice President, and was not introduced as the Vice President.
Humphrey, in the face of the position Richard Nixon was taking in the campaign that of supporter of Presidential peace initiatives had little choice but to pledge the same.
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 Vice President Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Hubert H. Humphrey was born on May 27, 1911, in Wallace, South Dakota.
She served until November 7, 1978, and was not a candidate for the unexpired term.
Hubert Humphrey's papers are located at the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul, Minnesota; the phone number is: 651-296-2143.
www.lbjlib.utexas.edu /johnson/archives.hom/FAQs/humphrey/HHH_home.asp   (539 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Hubert Horatio Humphrey (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Reelected in 1954, Humphrey campaigned in the 1960 presidential primaries against John F. Kennedy but withdrew after his defeat in the West Virginia primary.
Humphrey nevertheless secured the nomination but he was narrowly defeated by the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon, in the election.
Humphrey successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1970.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Sculptures > Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.
Muriel Humphrey, wife of Hubert Humphrey, selected the noted sculptor Walker Hancock to execute the bust of her late husband for the Senate’s Vice Presidential Bust Collection after visiting the artist at his Massachusetts studio in October 1979.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr., a U.S. senator from Minnesota and the 38th vice president of the United States, was born in Wallace, South Dakota.
Humphrey served in the Senate until 1964, when he was elected vice president on the Democratic ticket with Lyndon Baines Johnson.
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 Jimmy Carter Speech - Tribute to Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey was a mainstay of liberal Democratic politics, championed civil rights, and was considered by political friends and foes alike to be a truly decent man.
And I could always tell when my mother was coming down the road, because she was in a brand-new automobile with the windows broken out, the radio antenna tied in a knot, and the car painted with soap.
Humphrey, it's okay." So, she went in and, sure enough, there were several fl ladies there at the reception.
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 Hubert H. Humphrey, Allan Spear, McCain-Feingold, Durham-Humphrey, secundum artem, Mulford Q. Sibley, Lyndon Johnson
Humphrey survived to be reelected to his second term that fall.
It was the Hubert Humphrey -- Richard Nixon presidential contest of 1968 that led to earlier calls for campaign finance reform.
In the view of many it was a necessary step for the profession to achieve the respectability it currently has and for clinical pharmacy to emerge as an advanced scientific discipline toward the end of the 20th century.
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 Fulbright - Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program brings accomplished professionals from designated countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, Europe and Eurasia to the United States at a midpoint in their careers for a year of study and related professional experiences.
The Humphrey Program was initiated in 1978 to honor the memory and accomplishments of the late Senator and Vice-President, Hubert H. Humphrey.
Humphrey Fellowships are limited to one academic year, preceded, if appropriate, by a period of English language training.
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 Hubert H Humphrey List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Used for Hubert Horatio Humphrey's 1968 Democratic campaign for President (although we enjoy its secondary association with Havel's House of History).
Humphrey was Vice President under Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965-1969.
Used in Hubert H. Humphrey's abortive comeback campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1976.
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 Muriel Humphrey Brown, senator, wife of HHH, dead at 86
She was admitted to the hospital in the morning and was alert until the end, talking about the Minnesota Vikings game and her son' s gubernatorial bid.
He first won public office as mayor of Minneapolis in 1945, was elected to the U.S. Senate three years later and was elected vice president as President Lyndon Johnson' s running mate in 1964.
In Minnesota, the Humphreys lived on a lake just outside Waverly, where he died at age 66 after a long battle with cancer.
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 Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs: Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs: Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
The Humphrey Institute is home to several research and outreach centers, lecture series, public education programs, and research projects.
Admission to the Humphrey Institute is highly competitive.
www.hhh.umn.edu   (161 words)

  
 Hubert H. Humphrey Quote Page
Hubert H. Humphrey We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way.
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those in the shadows of life--the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey 11/1/77 The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
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 Hubert H. Humphrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Humphrey Fellows are provided an overall experience that broadens their perspective, enhances their capability to assume greater career responsibility, and provides the opportunity to establish professional contacts in the US.
To accomplish these objectives, Humphrey Fellows are placed at participating host universities and are enrolled in programs that include various combinations of coursework, independent projects, internships, seminars, field trips, and consultations with U.S. faculty and experts.
The Humphrey Fellowship provides: international travel, tuition and university fees, accident/sickness insurance, monthly maintenance allowance, and funding for books and professional activities.
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