The Happy Warrior Hubert Humphrey remembered
A portrait of Hubert H. Humphrey, his Civil Rights push, Peace Corps role, and long Senate career. The piece covers his advocacy for civil rights, battles with Johnson over Vietnam, leadership in foreign policy, and multiple presidential campaigns, ending with his decision not to seek the presidency again.
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Early Career of Hubert Humphrey Shaped by Depression Era Struggles
Hubert Humphrey born May 27, 1911 in Wallace South Dakota faced early economic decline. He left the University of Minnesota in 1931 to run the family drugstore, lived as a struggling small-town pharmacist for six years, married Muriel Buck in 1936, returned to school in 1937, earned a master's at LSU with a thesis on The Political Philosophy of the New Deal, taught for the Works Progress Administration, and settled in Minneapolis where he aligned with labor, Black, and Jewish communities before medical deferments kept him from military service.
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