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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

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

Humphrey grew up in Doland, South Dakota.

Humphrey played on the Doland High School football team. (second row, far left)

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.