休伯特·霍雷肖·汉弗莱,国会,MN (1911-1978)

1911 - 1978
任职年限:
1949 - 1964;1971 - 1978
方:
民主党人;民主党人

汉弗莱,休伯特·霍雷肖(穆丽尔·巴克·汉弗莱的丈夫),明尼苏达州参议员,美国副总统;1911年5月27日生于南卡罗来纳州科丁顿县的华莱士;在他的家人搬到的多兰市的公立学校上学;1933年毕业于科罗拉多州丹佛的国会药学院,1939年毕业于明尼苏达大学;1940年在路易斯安那州立大学获得研究生学位;1933-1937年在休伦市的汉弗莱制药公司(Humphrey Drug Co.)当药剂师;路易斯安那州立大学(1939-1940年)和明尼苏达大学(1940-1941年)的政治学助理讲师;战争生产培训和再就业州主任1942年明尼苏达战争服务项目州主任;1943年,战争人力委员会助理主任;1943-1944年,明尼苏达麦卡利斯特学院政治学教授; radio news commentator 1944-1945; mayor of Minneapolis 1945-1948; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948; reelected in 1954, and 1960 and served from January 3, 1949, until December 29, 1964, when he resigned to become Vice President; Democratic whip 1961-1964; known in the Senate as “the Happy Warrior”; chairman, Select Committee on Disarmament (Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth Congresses); 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; unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President of the United States 1968; resumed teaching at Macalester College and the University of Minnesota 1969-1970; chairman, board of consultants, Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp.; elected in 1970 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1976 and served from January 3, 1971, until his death in office; the post of Deputy President pro tempore of the Senate was created for him and he held it from January 5, 1977, until his death in Waverly, Minn., January 13, 1978; chairman, Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-fourth Congress); unprecedented sessions of the House and Senate were held in his honor in October 1977, when he was gravely ill; lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, January 14-15, 1978; interment in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.; posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on June 9, 1980.

参考书目

美国国家传记;汉弗莱,休伯特。《公众人物的教育:我的生活和政治》(The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics).1976.新ed.明尼阿波利斯:明尼苏达大学出版社,1991;瑟伯蒂莫西·N。《平等的政治:休伯特·h·汉弗莱与非裔美国人的自由斗争》.纽约:哥伦比亚大学出版社,1999。

资料来源:《美国国会传记名录》,1771年至今