词条 | Humphrey, Hubert H |
释义 | Humphrey, Hubert H vice president of United States born May 27, 1911, Wallace, S.D., U.S. died Jan. 13, 1978, Waverly, Minn. ![]() ![]() Humphrey was the son of Hubert H. Humphrey, Sr., a pharmacist, and Christine Sannes. After studying pharmacy and working in his family's drug store in South Dakota, Humphrey moved to Minneapolis to enter the University of Minnesota, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1939. He did graduate work at Louisiana State University and returned to Minnesota to teach college and work as a radio commentator in the Twin Cities. In 1944 he became the Minnesota campaign manager for President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Roosevelt, Franklin D.). During this period he was instrumental in merging the state's Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties. After an unsuccessful bid for mayor of Minneapolis in 1943, Humphrey won election two years later. At the Democratic National Convention in 1948, he led an unsuccessful effort to include a strong civil rights plank in the party's presidential platform. In the same year he was elected to the United States Senate, where he served for the next 16 years; in 1961 he became assistant majority leader. As a senator he developed a reputation as an effective, outspoken debater, a prolific initiator of legislation, and a skilled parliamentary leader. He won particular acclaim for achieving bipartisan support for the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (1963) and the Civil Rights Act (1964). When he became vice president under Lyndon B. Johnson (Johnson, Lyndon B.), Humphrey's earlier reputation as a glib and sometimes abrasive “do-gooder” was supplanted by a more conservative image, especially after he defended American participation in the Vietnam War, and he was often vilified by left-wing opponents of the Johnson administration. As vice president he served as chairman of the National Advisory Council of the Peace Corps, coordinator of the antipoverty program, and chairman of the Civil Rights Council, and he worked with Congress to pass the Voting Rights Act and Medicare (Medicare and Medicaid). ![]() After leaving office, he pursued his interest in education by teaching at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and at the University of Minnesota and by serving as a consultant to Encyclopædia Britannica. He was reelected to the Senate in 1970 as a Democratic–Farmer-Labor Party candidate. He unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1972 and considered a presidential bid in 1976. Afterward, he wrote his autobiography, The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics (1976, reissued 1991), and played an active role as elder statesman and party sage in the Senate. Observers both in and out of the Senate regarded him as one of the giants in the history of that body. |
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