In addition, Humphrey sponsored the clause in the McCarran Act of 1950 threatening concentration camps for "subversives",[70] and in 1954 proposed to make mere membership in the Communist Party a felony, a proposal that failed. "[138], While he was Vice President, Hubert Humphrey was the subject of a satirical song by songwriter/musician Tom Lehrer entitled "Whatever Became of Hubert?" We seek an America able to do this in the higher knowledge that our goals and ideals are worthy of conciliation and personal sacrifice. Farmers got the message, and it was Humphrey's that became known as the farmer's drugstore. "[79] [9] His unhappiness was manifested in "stomach pains and fainting spells", though doctors could find nothing wrong with him. [21] As mayor, he helped to elect a friend and previous neighbor of his, Edwin Ryan, as he needed a "police chief whose integrity and loyalty would be above reproach. It is all or nothing. View Hubert Humphrey's business profile at Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Find contact's direct phone number, email address, work history, and more. [98] Historian Robert Dallek has written that Robert F. Kennedy, who was serving as his brother's campaign manager, came into "possession of information that Humphrey may have sought military deferments during World War Two ... he pressed Roosevelt to use this. "[100], Short on funds, Humphrey could not match the well-financed Kennedy operation. Among its most notable members are Dr. Rev. [66] Humphrey served from the 81st to the 87th sessions of Congress, and in a portion of the 88th Congress. [53], Despite Truman's aides' aggressive pressure to avoid forcing the issue on the Convention floor, Humphrey spoke for the minority plank. It is fashionable now to suggest that Peace Corps Volunteers gained as much or more, from their experience as the countries they worked. He unsuccessfully sought his party's presidential nomination in 1952 and 1960. [21] In 1944, Humphrey was one of the key players in the merger of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties of Minnesota to form the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). Hubert H. Humphrey at the Macedonian Baptist Church, San Francisco, May 23, 1972, "Longines Chronoscope with Hubert H. Humphrey", "Longines Chronoscope with Sen. Hubert H. 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[199] Solberg wrote of President Nixon's April 1970 Cambodian Campaign as having done away with Humphrey's hopes that the war be taken out of political context. CC Poindexter. [48], At the 1948 Democratic National Convention, the party platform reflected the division by containing only platitudes supporting civil rights. The democratic process has worked its will."[184]. [15] While living in Huron, Humphrey regularly attended Huron's largest Methodist church and became scoutmaster of the church's Boy Scout Troop 6. [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. [135] He was an early skeptic of the then growing Vietnam War. The state, moreover, was a citadel of labor. On April 22, 1974, Humphrey said that he would not enter the upcoming Democratic presidential primary for the 1976 Presidential election. [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. The delegates defeated the peace plank by 1,5673/4 to 1,0411/4. After Lyndon B. Johnson acceded to the presidency, he chose Humphrey as his running mate, and the Democratic ticket won a landslide victory in the 1964 election. American Presidents Us Presidents American History Sweden Places To Visit Norway Forest Hubert Humphrey Presidential History Alpha Phi Alpha Hungary 38th Vice President of the United States In office January 20, 1965 – January 20, 1969 Brother Newsom was General President of Alpha Phi Alpha at the time of Brother Humphrey's initiation into the Fraternity and is well known as a scholar of social movements. [250], There is a statue of him in front of the Minneapolis City Hall. [69] During the McCarthyist period (1950–54), Humphrey was accused of being "soft on communism" despite having been one of the founders of the anticommunist liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action, having been a staunch supporter of the Truman Administration's efforts to combat the growth of the Soviet Union, and having fought Communist political activities in Minnesota and elsewhere. [161] While Humphrey was in Florence, Italy on April 1, 1967, 23-year-old Giulio Stocchi threw eggs at the Vice President and missed. [126] In October Humphrey had predicted that the ticket would win by a large margin but not carry every state. [10] Both father and son were innovative in finding ways to attract customers: "to supplement their business, the Humphreys had become manufacturers ... of patent medicines for both hogs and humans. [182] Humphrey selected as his running mate Senator Ed Muskie of Maine. As a result, Humphrey refused to quit the race and decided to run against Kennedy again in the West Virginia primary. "[18] Humphrey returned to the University of Minnesota in 1937 and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1939. [91], In 1960, Humphrey ran for the nomination against fellow Senator John F. Kennedy in the primaries. October 16, 1906. Who lived with Mr Edward Norton? [31] Despite his attempts to join the military, one biographer would note that "all through his political life, Humphrey was dogged by the charge that he was a draft dodger" during the war. [248] In 1978, Humphrey received the U.S. We seek an America able to preserve and nurture all the basic rights of free expression, yet able to reach across the divisions that too often separate race from race, region from region, young from old, worker from scholar, rich from poor. 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? Humphrey supported Roosevelt. [223] Humphrey was reportedly pleased by Nixon's resignation. So as the 1964 presidential campaign began, Humphrey made clear his interest in becoming Lyndon Johnson's running mate. [142] In mid-May 1965, Humphrey traveled to Dallas, Texas for an off-the-record discussion with donors of President Johnson's campaign. "Most Democrats and Republicans in the Senate voted for an $11.5 billion tax cut for American citizens and American business," he cried, "but not Senator Goldwater. "[198] On February 23, Humphrey disclosed his recommendation to Larry O'Brien for the latter to return to being Chair of the Democratic National Committee, a Humphrey spokesman reporting that Humphrey wanted a quick settlement to the issue of the DNC chairmanship. [177] On June 4, 1968, Kennedy defeated McCarthy by less than 4% in the winner-take-all California primary. His passing overshadowed the death of his colleague from Montana, Senator Lee Metcalf, who had died the day before Humphrey. His physician Edgar Berman said the next day that Humphrey "looks fine and feels fine" and was expected to leave early the following week. [227] In October, after Sara Jane Moore's assassination attempt on Ford, Humphrey joined former presidential candidates Barry Goldwater, Edmund Muskie, and George McGovern in urging Ford and other presidential candidates to restrain their campaigning the following year to prevent future attempts on their lives. [163] In late-December 1967, Vice President Humphrey began touring Africa. 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. [88] Among the European leaders who met with Humphrey and Reuther were the prime ministers of Britain, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, as well as future German chancellor Willy Brandt. [248], In 1978, Humphrey received the U.S. In 1972, Humphrey once again ran for the Democratic nomination for president, announcing his candidacy on January 10, 1972 during a twenty-minute speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [19], In 1943, Humphrey made his first run for elective office, for Mayor of Minneapolis. He helped found the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) in 1944; the next year he was elected mayor of Minneapolis, serving until 1948 and co-founding the liberal anti-communist group Americans for Democratic Action in 1947. "[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. [186] At a press conference on June 2, 1969, Humphrey backed Nixon's peace efforts, dismissing the notion that he was not seeking an end to the war. [45] Humphrey and his publicists were proud that the Council on Human Relations brought together individuals of varying ideologies. [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. [115] At a Santa Fe September 13 rally, Humphrey said the Goldwater-led Republican Party was seeking "to divide America so that they may conquer" and that Goldwater would pinch individuals in his reduction of government. [148] In a rarity in politics, Humphrey held both Senate seats from his state (Class I and Class II) at different times. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thurgood Marshall, Jesse Owen, Duke Ellington, W.E.B DuBois, Frederick Douglass, and former Vice President Hubert Humphrey. [178] But the nation was shocked yet again when Senator Kennedy was assassinated after his victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. [78] A trio of journalists wrote of Humphrey in 1969 that "few men in American politics have achieved so much of lasting significance. "[159] On April 2, 1967, Vice President Humphrey met with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Wilson. He was seized by American bodyguards who turned him in to Italian officers. [2] He was the son of Ragnild Kristine Sannes (1883–1973), a Norwegian immigrant,[3] and Hubert Horatio Humphrey Sr. 1978: U.S. "[39] Humphrey served as mayor from 1945 to 1948,[40] winning reelection in 1947 by the largest margin in the city's history to that time. Even after he revised this strategy he still stayed out of New Hampshire, a decision that allowed McGovern to emerge as the leading challenger to Muskie in that state. [175] A group of British journalists wrote that Humphrey, despite his liberal record on civil rights and support for a nuclear test-ban treaty, "had turned into an arch-apologist for the war, who was given to trotting around Vietnam looking more than a little silly in olive-drab fatigues and a forage cap. The Food for Peace program was Humphrey's idea, and so was Medicare, passed sixteen years after he first proposed it. Hubert H. Humphrety at the Macedonian Baptist Church, San Franciso, 23 May 1972, Democratic Party vice presidential candidate, Vice Presidents of the United States of America, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, Young Democrats of America High School Caucus, United States Democratic Party Vice Presidential Nominees, https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey_(1911-1978)/biography?oldid=589842. I added benzocaine, a local anesthetic, so that even if the sniffles didn't get better, you felt it less. [99] After the West Virginia primary, Roosevelt sent Humphrey a written apology and retraction. The following day Humphrey's acceptance speech overshadowed Johnson's own acceptance address: Hubert warmed up with a long tribute to the President, then hit his stride as he began a rhythmic jabbing and chopping at Barry Goldwater. [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. 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. [86] In a September address to the National Stationary and Office Equipment Association, Humphrey called for further inspection of Khrushchev's "live and let live" doctrine and maintained the Cold War could be won by using American "weapons of peace". Humphrey said members of the Nixon administration needed to remember "when they talk of a tough negotiating position, they are going to get a tough response. During his return to the Senate he served in the 92nd, 93rd, 94th, and a portion of the 95th Congress. [166] Johnson was challenged by Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, who ran on an anti-Vietnam War platform. The delegates knew it. "[12] Humphrey later wrote, "we made 'Humphrey's Sniffles', a substitute for Vick's Nose Drops. 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. [217] In August 1973, Humphrey called on Nixon to schedule a meeting with nations exporting and importing foods as part of an effort to both create a worldwide policy on food and do away with food hoarding. 1965: Honorary Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha, a historically African American fraternity. This page was last edited on 26 December 2020, at 14:57. [241] In July 1977, after the Senate began debating approval for funding of the neutron bomb, Humphrey stated that the White House had granted the impact statement on arms control be released.[242]. [150], In February 1965, President Johnson appointed Humphrey to the chairmanship of the President's Council on Equal Opportunity. "[145], During a May 1967 news conference, Humphrey said American anger toward Vietnam was losing traction and that he could see a growth in popularity for President Johnson since a low point five months prior. "[147], On November 4, 1967, Humphrey cited Malaysia as an example of what Vietnam could resemble post a Viet Cong defeat while in Jakarta, Indonesia. Humphrey was elected to the United States Senate in 1948 on the DFL ticket, defeating James M. Shields in the DFL primary with 89% of the vote,[62] and unseating incumbent Republican Joseph H. Ball in the general election with 60% of the vote. [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. Humphrey's critics later learned that Johnson had threatened Humphrey – Johnson told Humphrey that if he publicly criticized his policies, he would destroy Humphrey's chances to become President by opposing his nomination at the next Democratic Convention. Merriweather was initiated into the Alpha Phi Beta, a high school fraternity which is a Kappa Alpha Psi Guide Right Program. McWilliams, Carey. [105] That evening, Humphrey announced that he was leaving the race. "[96], Kennedy chose to meet the religion issue head-on. [49] The incumbent president, Harry S. 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