Mayor of Minneapolis, Vice President, and U.S. Senator (and Democratic Whip 1961-4). Ran for President in 1968 but lost to Richard M. Nixon.
[1] Bladder cancer, which had spread to his lymph nodes.
Father: Hubert H. Humphrey, Sr. (druggist)
Mother: Christine Sannes
Wife: Muriel Fay Buck (b. 1912, m. 1936, d. 1998)
Daughter: Nancy Faye Humphrey (b. 1939)
Son: Hubert Horatio Humphrey III ("Skip", b. 26-Jun-1942, MN State Atty General)
Son: Robert Andrew Humphrey (b. 1944)
Son: Douglas Sannes Humphrey (b. 1948)
University: Capitol College of Pharmacy, Denver, CO (1933)
University: University of Minnesota (1939)
University: Louisiana State University (1940)
President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Consultant (1967)
US Senator, Minnesota (1949-64)
US Vice President (1965-69 under Lyndon B. Johnson)
US Senator, Minnesota (1971-78)
Mayor of Minneapolis (1945-48)
Freemasonry
Shriners
Knights Templar
Knights of Pythias
Coalition for a Democratic Majority Advisory Board
Americans for Democratic Action
Council on Foreign Relations
Congressional Gold Medal
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1980 (posthumous)
Hernia Operation
Draft Deferment: World War II
Funeral: Martin Luther King (1968)
Visited Disneyland 27-May-1972
Traveled to the USSR Jun-1975
Lain in state at the Capitol Rotunda
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Candidate (29-Jun-1972) · Himself
Primary (1960) · Himself
Author of books:
The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics (1976, memoir)
AKA Hubert Horatio Humphrey