biography
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Humphrey, Hubert H(oratio)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911–78)
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| biography:
| US vice-president and senator, born in Wallace, South Dakota, USA. He worked as a registered pharmacist before studying political science. He was mayor of Minneapolis (1946–9) and a US senator (1949–64). He worked for civil rights and welfare programmes while in the Senate, and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. In 1964 he was chosen by Lyndon Johnson as his running mate, but as vice-president he was handicapped by Johnson's insistence on his loyalty in all policy matters. He won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968, but was defeated narrowly in the election by Richard Nixon, and returned to the Senate (1971). He ran again for the Democratic nomination (1972) but was defeated. In 1976 he was diagnosed with cancer, but still returned to the Senate, and his optimism won admiration during the period before his death in 1978. |
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