HUBERT HORATIO HUMPHREY, JR.

[LBJ Library Photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto]

1911-1978

38th Vice President (1965-1969)

Biographical Data
Religious Views
Quotations
References, Links, & Further Reading

Education: Denver College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Louisiana State University

Occupation: pharmacist, college professor, news commentator

Political Affiliation: Democrat

Religious Affiliation: Lutheran?, Methodist?, Congregationalist?

Summary of Religious Views:

Humphrey was raised in a Lutheran family, but, because there was no Lutheran church in his hometown, he and his family attended a Methodist church. As an adult, he liked to attend church with his children when he could.

Views on Religion & Politics:

Quotations:

"I was baptized in in the Highland Lutheran church in a rural section just north of Lily, South Dakota. It just so happened when we moved to Doland, South Dakota, that there was no Lutheran church and our family affiliated with the Methodist church." -- letter to Rev. Tenner Thompson, March 1945

"I attended church as a boy, primarily at mother's insistence, but also because I liked it and because Julian Hartt, the minister's son, was a close friend. In 1922, on the day Ralph and I were baptized, my father, then forty, joined the church." -- The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics, 1976, p. 29

"On one occasion, a traffic policeman in handing out a ticket called the violator a 'dirty Jew.' I suspended him for fifteen days without pay. I tried with far less success to stop the verbal abuse of Negroes." -- The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics, 1976, p. 99

References, Links, & Further Reading: Books, Articles, Films, Links

Books

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Works by Hubert H. Humphrey

Beyond Civil Rights: A New Day of Equality, Random House, 1964
The Cause Is Mankind: A Liberal Program for Modern America, Praeger, 1964
The Education of a Public Man: My Life and Politics, Doubleday, 1976; new ed., Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1991
with John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, & Thomas H. Kuchel, Moral Crisis: The Case for Civil Rights, Gilbert, 1964
The Political Philosophy of the New Deal, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1970
Tax loop holes, Public Affairs Inst. 1952
War on Poverty, McGraw-Hill, 1964

Biographies

Edgar Berman, Hubert: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Humphrey I Knew, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979
Dan Cohen, Undefeated: The Life of Hubert H. Humphrey, Lerner, 1978
Robert J. Engelmayer & Sheldon D.; Wagman, Hubert Humphrey: The man and His Dream, Dale Books, 1978
Charles Lloyd Garrettson, III, Hubert H. Humphrey: The Politics of Joy, Transaction, 1993
Winthrop Griffith, Humphrey: A Candid Biography, Morrow, 1965
Andrew L. Johns, The Price of Loyalty: Hubert Humphrey’s Vietnam Conflict, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020
Ralph G. Martin, A Man for All People: Hubert H. Humphrey, Grosset & Dunlap, 1968
Arnold A. Offner, Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country, Yale Univ. Press, 2018
Allan H. Ryskind, Hubert, An Unauthorized Biography of the Vice President, Arlington House, 1968
Carl Solberg, Hubert Humphrey, W.W. Norton, 1984
Timothy N. Thurber, The Politics of Equality: Hubert H. Humphrey and the African American Freedom Struggle, Columbia Univ. Press, 1999

Articles

Works by Hubert H. Humphrey

"Peace and Disarmament," In Crossroad Papers: A Look Into the American Future, ed. by Hans J. Morgenthau, pp. 127-40, W.W. Norton & Co., 1965
"The Senate on Trial," American Political Science Review, 44, September 1950, pp. 650-60

Biographies

Ralph Brauer, "The Tragedy of Citizen Humphrey," Midwest Quarterly, 32, Spring 1991, pp. 338-354
Gary W. Reichard , "Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey," Minnesota History, Vol. 56, No. 2, Summer 1998, pp. 50-67

Films

Hubert Humphrey: The Art of the Possible, PBS, 2010

Links

Works by Hubert H. Humphrey

Hubert H. Humphrey: An Inventory of His Speech Text Files at the Minnesota Historical Society (Minnesota Historical Society) -- includes texts
1948 Democratic National Convention Address (American Rhetoric)
Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address (American Rhetoric)
Hubert H. Humphrey Recordings/Airchecks (1946-1978) (Radiotapes)
Oral Histories -- Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. (LBJ Library)

Biographical Sites

HUMPHREY, Hubert Horatio, Jr., 1911-1978 (Biographical Directory of the US Congress)
Hubert Humphrey (Spartacus Encyclopedia)