Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (1911–1978), known as 'The Happy Warrior' of American liberalism, was an American pharmacist, political scientist, and statesman from Minnesota who served as Vice President of the United States (1965–1969) under Lyndon B. Johnson and for twenty-two years as US Senator. As a reform mayor of Minneapolis in 1945, he created the nation's first municipal fair employment practices commission.

At the 1948 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, thirty-seven-year-old Humphrey electrified the nation with an impassioned speech, proclaiming: 'The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights'. In the Senate, Humphrey was the floor manager for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, authored the bill creating the Peace Corps, and championed the Food for Peace program.