THE LIFE OF HUBERT H. HUMPHREY
1911
- Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr., born in Wallace, South Dakota
1917
- U.S. enters WWI
- Humphrey family moves to Doland, S.D., to open a drugstore
1920
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19th Amendment grants women the right to vote
- First national radio broadcast takes place
1929
- Stock Market crashes; Great Depression begins
- Herbert Hoover becomes 31st president
- Humphrey begins his studies at the University of Minnesota
1932
- Humphrey leaves the U of M to help in the family’s drugstore
1933
- Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes 32nd president
1937
- Events in Europe lead to WWII
- Humphrey returns to the University of Minnesota
1939
- Humphrey graduates from the U of M and starts graduate school
at Louisiana State University
1940
- First U.S. peacetime draft starts
- Humphrey earns his master’s degree in political science from
LSU
1941
- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor; U.S. declares war
1943
- Humphrey runs for mayor of Minneapolis and loses
- Starts teaching at Macalester College
1945
- Harry Truman becomes president after death of FDR
- U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan; WWII ends
- Humphrey elected mayor of Minneapolis in landslide victory
1947
- Humphrey re-elected mayor
1948
- Humphrey gives civil rights speech at Democratic National Convention
- Humphrey elected senator
1949
- Humphrey sponsors his first bill, which becomes law in 1965
as Medicare
1951
- 22nd Amendment is passed, limiting president to two consecutive
terms
1953
- Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes 34th president
1954
- U.S. Supreme Court rules against segregation in public schools
- Humphrey wins re-election to the senate
- Humphrey’s Food-for-Peace program begins
1955
- Rosa Parks’s actions start the bus boycott in Montgomery,
Alabama
1957
- Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first space satellite
1958
- Humphrey proposes a treaty to ban nuclear weapons tests
1960
- Humphrey is re-elected senator
- Humphrey loses the Democratic nomination for president to John
F. Kennedy
1961
- JFK becomes 35th president
- Berlin Wall is built
- Peace Corps, sponsored by Humphrey, begins
1962
- U.S. astronaut John Glenn becomes first man to orbit earth
1963
- Martin Luther King, Jr., leads March on Washington
- JFK is assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president
- Senate approves Humphrey’s nuclear test ban treaty
1964
- Important laws passed: Civil Rights Act; Job Corps Act; Food
Stamp Act; Wilderness Preservation Act
- LBJ is elected president with Humphrey as vice president
1967
- Vietnam War protests take place across the U.S.
- Thurgood Marshall becomes first black Supreme Court Justice
1968
- Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated
- Humphrey is nominated as Democratic candidate for president
- Nixon beats Humphrey in one of the closest elections in history
1969
- U.S. astronauts land on the moon
1970
- Humphrey is re-elected to senate
1971
- 26th Amendment lowers the voting age to 18
1973
- U.S. withdraws from Vietnam
- Humphrey is diagnosed with cancer and begins treatment
1974
- President Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford becomes 38th president
1976
- Jimmy Carter elected 39th president
- Humphrey re-elected senator for a 5th term
- Humphrey undergoes surgery for cancer
1978
- Humphrey dies at his home in Waverly, Minnesota
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Humphrey grew up in Doland, South Dakota.
Humphrey played on the Doland High School football team.
Humphrey in his Minneapolis mayor's office, 1947
Senator Humphrey with John F. Kennedy during the Wisconsin primary election, 1960
Vice President Humphrey and civil rights leader martin Luther King Jr., 1965
Vice President Hubert Humphrey and President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House, 1965
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