Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson, from 1965 to 1969. Humphrey twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 1968 presidential election, losing to the Republican nominee, Richard M. Nixon.

Born in Wallace, South Dakota, Humphrey attended the University of Minnesota before earning his pharmacist license from the Capitol College of Pharmacy in 1931. He helped run his father's pharmacy until 1937 when he returned to academia, graduating with his masters from Louisiana State University in 1940, where he was a political science instructor. He returned to Minnesota during World War II and became a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration. He was then appointed state director of the Minnesota war service program before becoming the assistant director of the War Manpower Commission. In 1943, Humphrey became a Professor of political science at Macalester College and ran a failed campaign for Mayor of Minneapolis. Humphrey helped found the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) in 1944, and in 1945, became the DFL candidate for Mayor of Minneapolis for a second time, winning with 61% of the vote. Humphrey served as mayor from 1945 to 1948, he was reelected and became the co-founder of the liberal anti-communism group Americans for Democratic Action in 1947.

Hubert Humphrey (disambiguation)

Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978) was the 38th Vice President of the United States.

Hubert Humphrey may also refer to:

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Hubert Humphrey (MLM)

For the United States vice president, see Hubert Humphrey. For other uses, see Hubert Humphrey (disambiguation).

Hubert Humphrey aka Steeley Hubert Humphrey, Jr. (born 1942, Macon, Georgia) is the founder of several financial services corporations in the United States. Humphrey used to market motivational business material from his online store. Humphrey is the founder of World Marketing Alliance, now known as World Financial Group (WFG), World Leadership Group (WLG), and Hegemon Group International (HGI). Humphrey's FINRA registration expired at the end of February, 2012.

A.L. Williams / Primerica

Humphrey was one of the original members in the A. L. Williams organization, which became well known in later years for its controversial insurance philosophy "Buy term and invest the difference" and multi-level marketing (MLM) organization structure. Humphrey worked for over 20 years on the railroad, and was at one point an Amway (not to be confused with Amtrak) distributor. Humphrey later joining A.L. Williams, and began to apply MLM techniques to his A.L. Williams sales organization, initially without the knowledge or consent of A.L. Williams founder Arthur L. Williams, Jr.. His methods became the foundation of the organization, and the growth of A.L. Williams to a sales force of 250,000 registered life agents when sold, and 44,000 registered stock brokers was attributed to Humphrey's use of leadership training and recruiting in the company.