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  Muriel Humphrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Muriel Buck Humphrey (February 20, 1912 – September 20, 1998) was the wife of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
She was born Muriel Fay Buck in Huron, South Dakota.
She was appointed as a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party by the governor of Minnesota to the Senate vacancy caused by the death of her husband, and served from January 25, 1978 to November 7, 1978.
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 Hubert Humphrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 Encyclopedia
Humphrey was born on May 27, 1911, in Wallace, S.Dak. He studied pharmacy and helped run the family drugstore before taking degrees at the universities of Minnesota and Louisiana.
Humphrey was reelected to the Senate in 1970 and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972.
He died on Jan. 13, 1978, in Waverly, Minn. At his death, his widow, Muriel Humphrey Brown (1912–98), was named to fill his seat in the Senate; she declined to run for another term in the 1978 election.
history.com /encyclopedia.do?vendorId=FWNE.fw..hu107600.a#FWNE.fw..h...   (755 words)

  
 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 Muriel said, "I'm not going in." So, they stopped the car, and my sister Gloria went inside to check and let the hostess know that Muriel was not coming to the reception.
Humphrey, it's okay." So, she went in and, sure enough, there were several fl ladies there at the reception.
www.historyplace.com /speeches/carter.htm   (1357 words)

  
 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.
Muriel Humphrey first reviewed photographs of the clay bust, which subsequently was approved with minor adjustments.
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.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/art/artifact/Sculpture_22_00038.htm   (689 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Politics
Muriel Humphrey Brown, the archetypal political wife who stood by Hubert Humphrey during his more than 40 years of government service and then filled his Senate seat after his death in 1978, died Sept. 20 in Minneapolis.
Brown was born Muriel Fay Buck in Huron, S.D., on Feb. 20, 1912.
When Hubert Humphrey died after a long battle with cancer in 1978, she was appointed to fill his Senate seat.
washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/links/humphrey.htm   (684 words)

  
 Muriel Spark -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Muriel Buck Humphrey (February 20, 1912 – September 20, 1998) was the wife of Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, and a United States Senator.
Muriel is a socially awkward and naïve ''ugly duckling'', which causes a group of "more modern" girls that she thought were her friends to oust her out of their group of friends.
Muriel H. Duckworth was the 1991 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for her work in feminism.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/101/muriel-spark.html   (1252 words)

  
 Vice President Hubert Horatio Humphrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Hubert H. Humphrey was born on May 27, 1911, in Wallace, South Dakota.
After Humphrey's death, the governor of Minnesota appointed Humphrey's wife, Muriel Buck Humphrey, to fill the vacant Senate seat.
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)

  
 E-Debate 98
Hubert H. "Skip" Humphrey III was first elected Minnesota Attorney General (www.ag.state.mn.us) in 1982, and was re-elected with the highest vote totals in the state in 1986, 1990 and 1994.
A national marketing publication said Humphrey is "widely viewed as the most prominent regulatory activist in the area of environmental truth-in-advertising." Humphrey represented attorneys general at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, and currently serves on the President's Council on Sustainable Development.
Humphrey has taken on some of the biggest corporate interests in the world to protect Minnesotans from fraud, deception and rip-offs.
www.e-democracy.org /mn-forum/e-debate98w/humphrey.html   (788 words)

  
 Muriel Humphrey Brown, senator, wife of HHH, dead at 86
Muriel Humphrey Brown, senator, wife of HHH, dead at 86
In Minnesota, the Humphreys lived on a lake just outside Waverly, where he died at age 66 after a long battle with cancer.
In 1979, she married Max Brown, a Nebraskan and lifelong Republican whom she met when the two were sixth-graders in Huron.
www.northern.edu /hastingw/humphrey.htm   (865 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Humphrey
Humphrey, Carl — of Mullen, Hooker County, Neb. Republican.
Humphrey, H. — of Huron, Beadle County, S.Dak. Democrat.
Humphrey, Lucy — of Reno, Washoe County, Nev. Republican.
politicalgraveyard.com /bio/humphrey.html   (799 words)

  
 Hubert Horatio Humphrey
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.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0824528.html   (330 words)

  
 Muriel Humphrey Brown eulogized at public memorial service - Minnesota Daily
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Muriel Humphrey Brown, who found herself at the epicenter of Washington politics during the tumultuous 1960s, was remembered at a memorial service Thursday for the calm she brought to the storm.
As widow of the state's most popular politician, Muriel Humphrey became the state's only female U.S. senator when she was appointed to the seat vacated by Humphrey's death from cancer in January 1978.
Son Hubert Humphrey III, the state attorney general and DFL nominee for governor, offered the closing eulogy, in which he compared her life to her renowned needlepoint creations.
www.mndaily.com /articles/1998/09/25/7894   (574 words)

  
 Americana Resources - Political: Humphrey and Muskie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Hubert Humphrey: Matchbook, unused, from the Humphrey Drug Store in South Dakota where Humphrey worked as a pharmacist, with his father, as a young man. This matchbook is from the Humphrey vice presidential years and read "Humphrey Drug Store.
Hubert Humphrey: 2-fold leaflet for Humphrey by Farmers for Humphrey-Muskie.
White, with "Humphrey" in white on a blue rectangle and then "Muskie" in white on a red rectangle and white stars at the bottom of both rectangles.
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 Hubert Humphrey's Widow Dies - CBS News
Hubert Humphrey lost the 1968 presidential election to Richard Nixon and was re-elected to the Senate in 1970.
Brown was born Muriel Fay Buck on Feb. 20, 1912, in Huron, S.D. She met Humphrey in 1934 when he was working at his father's drugstore and she was a bookkeeper for a utility.
A year after Humphrey died at age 66 after a long battle with cancer, she married Max Brown, a lifelong Republican whom she met when the two were sixth-graders in Huron.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/09/21/national/main17982.shtml   (518 words)

  
 Sculpture to Humphrey dedicated in Waverly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Buck Humphrey, a grandson, recalled a number of humourous stories about Waverly when he was young, putting around town in a Model T of his father’s, and “borrowing” apples as a boy from other people’s trees.
Hubert and Muriel Humphrey were Methodists, but would worship at St. Mary’s, observing Mass during special occasions and on Christmas or holidays, commented Joe Campbell of Waverly.
Granite supporting the bust was quarried from Humphrey’s birthplace, Milbank, SD, and the granite for the marker was from India – selected to symbolize Humphrey’s global vision, and make note of a historic trip he made to that country.
www.herald-journal.com /archives/2005/stories/bust.html   (406 words)

  
 CANCER DETECTION TECHNIQUE PROVED BY HUMPHREY
With permission of Humphrey's widow, Muriel Humphrey Bro the researchers investigated his bladder cancer and other tissue samples that were on file at Hopkins and elsewhere, and were taken at various intervals during his illness.
The technique was originally developed by Sidransky and Clayton Professor of Oncology, Bert Vogelstein, M.D. "Had Humphrey known that he had an aggressive bladder cancer in 1967, he almost certainly would have withdrawn from the presidential race," the report says.
In 1967, when he was vice president, Humphrey entered Bethesda Naval Hospital after noticing blood in his urine.
www.hopkinsmedicine.org /press/1994/APRIL/199416.HTM   (794 words)

  
 Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony of the Congressional Gold Medal Honoring Hubert H. Humphrey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
There was in Hubert Humphrey a great joy of life and a truly buoyant civility.
Hubert Humphrey was a robust and active player in the dramas of our time for more than 30 years.
Muriel Humphrey Brown the Congressional Gold Medal for distinguished service to the Federal Government and the American people in honor of the great, happy warrior: Hubert Horatio Humphrey.
www.reagan.utexas.edu /archives/speeches/1984/91184a.htm   (1320 words)

  
 MURIEL HUMPHREY - TYPED NOTE SIGNED 11/20/1968
Muriel Buck Humphrey (1912-1998) had married Hubert Humphrey in 1936.
Her husband, who had been a U.S. Senator from Minnesota since January 1949, was elected as LBJ's Vice President in 1964, serving until 1969.
After Humphrey, who was re-elected to the Senate in 1970, died in office in 1978, the Governor of Minnesota appointed Mrs.
www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2003/women/MURIEL_HUMPHREY.htm   (225 words)

  
 KRVN 880 Rural Radio -     (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Muriel and Max were re-introduced to each other in 1979 and were married from 1981 until her death in 1998.
Leslie Max Brown was born in Brookings, SD on August 31, 1911, the son of Willet J. Brown and the former Birdie M. Erickson.
Brown's second marriage to the former Muriel Humphrey became national news, partly because he was a staunch Republican and she an equally committed Democrat.
www.krvn.com /news/MaxBrown/index.cfm   (1101 words)

  
 Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs: Fall 2006 Humphrey Institute Events
Several representatives from the Humphrey Institute will make presentations at the 22nd annual Conference on Policy Analysis, "Visions for Minnesota's Future," Wednesday, October 18, at the Continuing Education and Conference Center on the University's St. Paul campus.
The Humphrey Forum's fall exhibit, "Artful Lives," is filled with artwork created by individuals with developmental disabilities.
Hubert and Muriel Humphrey dedicated much of their public and private lives to the welfare of individuals with disabilities, and the exhibit will include information on their personal and political efforts on behalf of those in the "shadows of life." The exhibit is free and open to the public 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
www.hhh.umn.edu /news/headlines/headlines2006/hhh_events.html   (1046 words)

  
 The Hedgehog Report » Open Thread 07/27/05
Actually, Muriel Humphrey was appointed in January 1978, well after Anderson had himself appointed (in December 1976).
Yes Humphrey died in January 1978 and Muriel Humphrey was appointed in his place.
Muriel was a reluctant Senator and demos in Minnesota begged her to run in Nov 1978.
www.davidwissing.com /index.php/4439   (1541 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Humphrey family of Minnesota and South Dakota
The Political Graveyard: Humphrey family of Minnesota and South Dakota
Humphrey : The Politics of Joy (out of print).
Muriel Buck Humphrey (1912-1998) -- also known as Muriel Humphrey Brown -- Married to
www.politicalgraveyard.com /families/2300.html   (484 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Hubert H. Humphrey papers : a summary guide, including the papers of Muriel Buck Humphrey Brown.
Find in a Library: Hubert H. Humphrey papers : a summary guide, including the papers of Muriel Buck Humphrey Brown.
Hubert H. Humphrey papers : a summary guide, including the papers of Muriel Buck Humphrey Brown.
Subjects: Humphrey, Hubert H. Brown, Muriel Buck Humphrey
worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/71dca5567f04b1a9a19afeb4da09e526.html   (110 words)

  
 DNB - Archival DNB Documents at OSU
Humphrey, Doris – Passacaglia and Fugue (Lucy Venable, 1957)
Feld, Elliot – The Consort (Muriel Topaz, 1977)
Duet Corsair – Marius Petipa (Muriel Topaz, 1979)
dancenotation.org /DNB/library/bib/osu_microfilm.html   (4597 words)

  
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Harris, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Lyndon Baines Johnson, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Eugene J, McCarthy, A. Mike Monroney, Edmund Muskie, Richard M. Nixon, George Corley Wallace, Victor E.
Topics include Fred R. Harris, LaDonna Harris, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jed J. Johnson, Lyndon Baines Johnson, A. Mike Monroney, Democratic Party (Okla.), Democratic Party (U.S.), campaign literature and Oklahoma, electioneering and Oklahoma, electioneering and the United States, Preston J. Moore, and Pat J. Patterson.
Topics include LaDonna Harris, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Robert F. Kennedy, Democratic Party (U.S.), National Foundation for Social Sciences, Alcatraz Island (Calif.) Indian occupation 1969-1971, electioneering and the United States, social sciences research and the United States, and youth political activity in the United States.
www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/MiscInventory/monroebox.htm   (1875 words)

  
 ALHN - US> Minnesota>Hennepin County> Minneapolis>Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Eva Valesh (papers MHS) - journalist and labor activist, exposed the terrible working conditions of the "mill girls" in Minneapolis.
Muriel Humphrey Brown (1912-1998) U.S. Senator from Minnesota, 1978.
Loren Fletcher (1833-1919) State representative and Speaker of the Minnesota House; congressman.
www.mtn.org /quack/local/hennepin/mplsbios.html   (583 words)

  
 TIME.com: Love and Politics -- Dec. 1, 1975 -- Page 1
Pat Nixon urged her husband to burn the Watergate tapes.
Muriel Humphrey, who heard secondhand that Hubert had decided to run for President in 1968, sent him a sarcastic telegram: "Let me know if I can be of help." And a woman overnight guest at the L.B.J. ranch was awakened in bed by a familiar drawl, "Move over−this is yore President."
Such gossip is the stuff of Washington politics−and of Myra MacPherson's new book, The Power Lovers: An Intimate Look at Politicians and Their Marriages (Putnam; $10).
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,913784,00.html   (601 words)

  
 MPR's Midday 09/21/98 - 09/25/98 (MPR News)
and 9:00 p.m.: Reminiscences of the late Muriel Humphrey.
12:00 p.m.: Rebroadcast of a 1988 Minnesota Public Radio documentary about the life and politics of the late Hubert Humphrey, called The Politics of Joy.
A memorial service for his widow, Muriel Humphrey Brown, will be held at 2:00 p.m.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org /programs/midday/listings/md980921.htm   (350 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Senators Home > State Information > Minnesota
Joseph H. Ball (R) Arthur E. Nelson (R) Joseph H. Ball (R) Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr.
Statuary: Maria L. Sanford by Evelyn Raymond, located in the Senate connecting corridor; Henry Mower Rice by Frederick E. Triebel, located in Statuary Hall.
Vice Presidents Collection: Hubert H. Humphrey by Walker Hancock (Senate wing, second floor, main corridor).
www.senate.gov /pagelayout/senators/one_item_and_teasers/minnesota.htm   (298 words)

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