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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Hubert Humphrey
| image               = Hubert Humphrey vice presidential portrait.jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 1965
| term_start          = January 20, 1965
| term_end            = January 20, 1969
| president           = Lyndon B. Johnson
| predecessor         = [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]
| successor           = [[Spiro Agnew]]
| jr/sr3              = United States Senator
| state3              = [[Minnesota]]
| term_start3         = January 3, 1971
| term_end3           = January 13, 1978
| predecessor3        = [[Eugene McCarthy]]
| successor3          = [[Muriel Humphrey Brown|Muriel Humphrey]]
| term_start4         = January 3, 1949
| term_end4           = December 30, 1964
| predecessor4        = [[Joseph H. Ball]]
| successor4          = [[Walter Mondale]]
| office5             = 14th [[Majority Whip|United States Senate Majority Whip]]
| term_start5         = January 3, 1961
| term_end5           = December 30, 1964
| predecessor5        = [[Mike Mansfield]]
| successor5          = [[Russell B. Long]]
| office6             = 1st [[President pro tempore of the United States Senate#Deputy President pro tempore|Deputy President ''pro tempore'' of the United States Senate]]
| term_start6         = 1977
| term_end6           = 1978
| president6          = Sen. [[James Eastland]]
| predecessor6        = None
| successor6          = [[George J. Mitchell]] (1987)
| office7             = 35th [[List of mayors of Minneapolis|Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota]]
| term_start7         = July 2, 1945
| term_end7           = November 30, 1948
| president7          = 
| predecessor7        = [[Marvin L. Kline]]
| successor7          = [[Eric G. Hoyer]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1911|5|27}}
| birth_place         = [[Wallace, South Dakota]]
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1978|1|13|1911|5|27}}
| death_place         = [[Waverly, Minnesota]]
| party               = [[Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party|Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor]]
| spouse              = [[Muriel Humphrey Brown|Muriel Buck Humphrey]]
| profession          = 
| alma_mater          = [[University of Minnesota]], [[Drew College of Pharmacy]] and [[Louisiana State University]]
| signature           = Hubert H Humphrey Signature.svg|
| office              = [[List of vice presidents of the United States|38th]] [[Vice President of the United States]]
}}
'''Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr.''' (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an [[Americans|American]] [[politician]] and [[statesman]]. He served as the 38th [[Vice President of the United States|vice president of the United States]] from 1965 to 1969 under [[President of the United States|President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. Before becoming vice president, he was a [[United States Senate|United States senator]] from [[Minnesota]] from 1949 to 1964 and again from 1971 to 1978.

==Early life==
Humphrey was born in a room over his father's drugstore in Wallace, South Dakota.<ref>Solberg, Carl (1984); ''Hubert Humphrey: A Biography''; Borealis Books; {{ISBN|0-87351-473-4}}. See [https://books.google.com/books?id=wzGabQcvDvcC&dq=hubert%20humphrey&pg=PA35 p.35].</ref> He was the son of Ragnild Kristine Sannes (1883–1973), a [[Norway|Norwegian]] immigrant, and Hubert Humphrey, Sr. (1882–1949). Humphrey spent most of his childhood in [[Doland, South Dakota]], on the Dakota [[prairie]]; the town's population was about 600 people when he lived there. His father was a licensed [[pharmacist]] who was mayor and a town council member.<ref>(Solberg, p. 41)</ref> In the late 1920s a severe economic decline hit Doland; both of the town's banks closed and Humphrey's father fought to keep his drugstore business open.<ref>(Solberg, p. 44)</ref>

After his son graduated from Doland's high school, Hubert Humphrey, Sr. left Doland and opened a new drugstore in the larger town of [[Huron, South Dakota]]; a population of 11,000 people, where he hoped to improve his fortunes. Because of the family's financial struggles, Humphrey had to leave the [[University of Minnesota]] after just one year. He earned a pharmacist's license from the Capitol College of Pharmacy in [[Denver, Colorado]] (completing a two-year licensure program in just six months), and spent years from 1931 to 1937 helping his father run the family drugstore.<ref>(Solberg, p. 48)</ref> Over time the Humphrey Drug Company became a financial gain business and the family again succeeded.

Humphrey did not enjoy working as a pharmacist, and his dream was to earn a doctorate in political science and become a college professor. In 1937 he returned to the University of Minnesota and earned a bachelor's degree in 1939. He was a member of [[Phi Delta Chi]] [[Fraternity]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/studentorg/pdc/ |title=Phi Delta Chi - Iota<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2013-02-23 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721050007/http://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/studentorg/pdc/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He also earned a master's degree from [[Louisiana State University]] in 1940, serving as an assistant instructor of political science. One of his classmates was [[Russell B. Long]], who would become a U.S. Senator from [[Louisiana]]. He then became an instructor and doctoral student at the University of Minnesota from 1940 to 1941 (joining the [[American Federation of Teachers]]), and was a supervisor for the [[Works Progress Administration]] (WPA). Humphrey soon became active in Minneapolis politics, and as a result he never finished his [[PhD]].He died of Bladder cancer in Waverley Minnesota at age 66

==Political career==
Humphrey was a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from [[Minnesota]] twice, and was Democratic [[Majority Whip]]. He was a founder of the [[Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party]] and [[Americans for Democratic Action]]. He was also [[List of mayors of Minneapolis|mayor]] of [[Minneapolis, Minnesota|Minneapolis]], Minnesota, 1945–1949.

===1968 election===
Humphrey began his campaign for president after President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] [[Withdrawal of Lyndon B. Johnson from the 1968 United States presidential election|ended his re-election campaign]] in March 1968. A few months later, Humphrey was the nominee of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] in the [[1968 United States presidential election|United States presidential election]] but narrowly lost to the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee, [[Richard Nixon]].

==Death==
Hubert Humphrey died of bladder cancer in Minnesota at age 66

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