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Former Vice Presidents also ran, in 1984 ( Walter Mondale ), and in 1968 ( Richard Nixon, against the incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey ).
In 1960, Humphrey ran again for the Democratic presidential nomination against fellow Senator John F. Kennedy in the primaries.
In 1972, Humphrey once again ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
Humphrey ran for Majority Leader after the 1976 election but lost to Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
Important members of the party have included Minneapolis mayor Hubert H. Humphrey and Minnesota Attorney General Walter Mondale, who each went on to be United States Senators, Vice Presidents of the United States, and unsuccessful Democratic nominees for president, Humphrey in 1968 and Mondale in 1984 ; Eugene McCarthy, a Senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 as an anti-Vietnam War candidate ; and Paul Wellstone, a Senator from 1991 – 2002 who became an icon of populist progressivism.
In 1964, as Southern Democratic Senators staged a filibuster that ran 54 days to block passage of the Civil Rights bill of 1964 ( see Civil Rights Act of 1964, Senators Dirksen, Thomas Kuchel ( R-CA ), Hubert Humphrey ( D-MN ), and Mike Mansfield ( D-MT ) introduced a substitute bill and slightly weaker bill that they hoped would attract enough Republican swing votes to end the filibuster.
Along with Humphrey, she was close to Henry M. Jackson, who ran for the Democratic nomination for President in 1972 and 1976.
Ten minutes into the fourth quarter, Hamilton's Ray Bawel intercepted a pass and it appeared he would return the ball for a touchdown when Humphrey stuck his leg out and tripped Bawel as he ran up the sideline.
In 1960, the year Minnesota helped elect John F. Kennedy to the Presidency and re-elected Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Elmer ran for governor, winning by more than 20, 000 votes.
Humphrey, with a coalition state organizations, city bosses such as Mayor Richard Daley, and labor unions won the nomination and ran against Republican Richard Nixon and independent George Wallace in the general election.
Some Democratic Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates ran for those offices as pro-life, including Hubert Humphrey and Sargent Shriver.
Miller ran for election to the seat being vacated by fellow Republican William Humphrey ( who was running for United States Senate ) in 1916, winning that election and the elections of 1918, 1920, 1922, 1924, 1926, and 1928.
After running as the lieutenant governor candidate with Skip Humphrey during Humphrey's 1998 gubernatorial bid, Moe ran for governor against Tim Pawlenty, Tim Penny and Ken Pentel in 2002.
Gordon John Humphrey ( born October 9, 1940 ) is a New Hampshire politician who served two terms in the Senate as a Republican from 1979 to 1990, and twice ran for Governor of New Hampshire, though both bids were unsuccessful.

Humphrey and for
Fair Dealer Humphrey upped the ante, asked cloture power for a mere majority of Senators.
Please see bibliography for some of the many critical evaluations of her opus of children ’ s literature, including Modernist interpretations of Humphrey Carpenter and Katherine Chandler.
Examples of their work include Drifters ( John Grierson ), Song of Ceylon ( Basil Wright ), Fires Were Started and A Diary for Timothy ( Humphrey Jennings ).
It was reportedly anchored in the river Dart for more than a year and the crew were used as labourers on the nearby Greenway Estate which was the home of Sir Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Sir Walter Raleigh.
Of these, Humphrey Jennings ' trilogy of war films – Listen to Britain ( 1942 ), Fires Were Started ( 1943 ) and A Diary for Timothy ( 1945 )-are generally regarded as the most artistically significant.
Their hiding place at Hagley, the home of Humphrey Littleton ( brother of MP John Littleton, imprisoned for treason in 1601 for his part in the Essex revolt ) was betrayed by a cook, who grew suspicious of the amount of food sent up for his master's consumption.
She used a drawing of baby Humphrey in a well-known ad campaign for Mellins Baby Food.
" As a boy, Bogart was teased for his curls, his tidiness, the " cute " pictures his mother had him pose for, the Little Lord Fauntleroy clothes she dressed him in — and the name " Humphrey.
The Vikings play their home games at the Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis as they have since 1982 ( a bill was passed in May 2012 to build a new stadium for the team, which is expected to open by the 2016 season ).
In December 1979, ground was broken for construction of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis.
Porco Rosso, for instance, owes much to the various screen personae of Humphrey Bogart.
One of Denver's new major additions was rookie running back Bobby Humphrey, who rushed for 1, 151 yards, caught 22 passes for 156 yards, and scored 8 touchdowns.
The Broncos responded with a 49-yard scoring drive, mainly on plays by running back Bobby Humphrey, who rushed 4 times for 22 yards and caught a 27-yard shovel pass, Elway's longest completion of the game.
But then Humphrey lost a fumble at midfield while being tackled by defensive end Kevin Fagan, and safety Chet Brooks recovered the loose ball for San Francisco.
Humphrey was Denver's leading rusher and receiver, with 61 rushing yards and 3 receptions for 38 yards.
A check of the website Old Bailey for " Associated Records 1674-1834 " for an alleged trial in December 1801 and hanging of Sweeney Todd for January 1802 shows no reference ; the only murder trial for this period is that of a Governor / Lt Col. Joseph Wall who was hanged 28 January 1802 for killing a Benjamin Armstrong on 10 July 1782 on the isle of Gorée, West Africa, and the discharge of a Humphrey White in January 1802.
The Finnish Foreign Ministry ignored United States offers for help as promised by Ambassador Hubert Humphrey in November 1958.

Humphrey and Democratic
A wide-ranging, bipartisan force -- from Minnesota's Democratic Hubert Humphrey to Massachusetts' Republican Leverett Saltonstall -- was drawn up against a solid phalanx of Southern Democrats, who have traditionally used the filibuster to stop civil rights bills.
* August 24 – 27 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City nominates incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and U. S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate.
* August 22 – August 30 – Police clash with anti-war protesters in Chicago, Illinois, outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U. S. President, and Edmund Muskie for Vice President.
** U. S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace.
During the ensuing general election campaign against Vice President Hubert Humphrey — which took place against a backdrop of urban riots and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, culminating in the violent confrontations at the Democratic convention in Chicago — Agnew repeatedly hammered the Democrats on the issue of " law and order ".
" He played a major role in the history of the Democratic Party, especially with his support of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and of Hubert Humphrey in 1968.
The major candidates for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination were Kennedy, Governor Pat Brown of California, Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon and Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota.
He was appointed U. S. Senator in late 1964 as a member of the Democratic Party upon the resignation of Hubert Humphrey, and held that post until 1976.
Both Kennedy and Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota had been running against the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip.
Humphrey was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election but lost to the Republican nominee, Richard Nixon.
In 1944, Humphrey was one of the key players in the merger of the Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties of Minnesota to form the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party ( DFL ).
Humphrey was a Willkie Republican in 1940, but during the postwar mop-up, when old American radicals were kicked out of a newly war-enamored Left, Humphrey busily extirpated Bryanism from the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party so that the populist FL might merge with the Trumanite hawks of the Democratic Party.
Humphrey gained national fame during these years by becoming one of the founders of the liberal anticommunist Americans for Democratic Action ( ADA ) and for reforming the Minneapolis police force.
A diverse coalition opposed this tepid platform, including anti-communist liberals like Humphrey, Paul Douglas and John Shelley, all of whom would later become known as leading progressives in the Democratic Party.
During the period of McCarthyism ( 1950 – 1954 ), Humphrey was accused of being " soft on Communism ", despite having been one of the founders of the anti-communist liberal organization Americans for Democratic Action, having been a staunch supporter of the Truman Administration's efforts to combat the growth of the Soviet Union, and having fought Communist political activities in Minnesota and elsewhere.
As Democratic whip in the Senate in 1964, Humphrey was instrumental in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of that year.
In between these two presidential bids, Senator Humphrey was part of the free-for-all for the vice-presidential nomination at the 1956 Democratic National Convention, where he received 134 votes on the first ballot and 74 on the second.
Humphrey believed that only in this way could he raise the funds and nationwide organization and visibility he would need to win the Democratic nomination.
At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Johnson kept the three likely vice presidential candidates, Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd, fellow Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, and Humphrey, as well as the rest of the nation in suspense before announcing Humphrey as his running-mate with much fanfare, praising Humphrey's qualifications for a considerable amount of time before announcing his name.
Humphrey's critics later learned that Johnson had threatened Humphrey — Johnson told Humphrey that if he publicly opposed his Administration's Vietnam War policy, he would destroy Humphrey's chances to become President by opposing his nomination at the next Democratic Convention.

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