Hubert H. Humphrey

Hubert H. Humphrey served as mayor of Minneapolis from 1945 to 1948, as a United States senator from 1949 to 1964 and again from 1971 to 1978, and as vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He was associated with the Peace Corps, civil rights, and the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. In 1948, he declared that the Democratic Party should leave the shadow of states' rights and walk into the bright sunshine of human rights. In 1967, he said that freedom was not real when it was enjoyed by one person, nation, or race but denied to another. Reflecting on his life, he said he had loved his country deeply and remained an optimistic believer in the American experiment in democracy. In 1977, he said the moral test of government is how it treats children, the elderly, and those who are sick, needy, and handicapped.

St. Paul, Minnesota · United States