Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1882-1949) —
also known as H. H. Humphrey —
of Doland, Spink
County, S.Dak.; Huron, Beadle
County, S.Dak.
Born in Albany, Linn
County, Ore., 1882.
Democrat. Druggist; chair of
Spink County Democratic Party, 1928; member of South
Dakota state house of representatives 24th District, 1937-38;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Dakota, 1948
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Methodist.
English
ancestry.
Died in November, 1949
(age about
67 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Ralph W. Humphrey (c.1906-1967) —
of Huron, Beadle
County, S.Dak.
Born in Granite Falls, Yellow
Medicine County, Minn., about 1906.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
South Dakota, 1956.
Died, of cancer,
in St. Barnabas Hospital,
Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., August
22, 1967 (age about 61
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (1911-1978) —
also known as Hubert H. Humphrey; "H.H.H.";
"The Happy Warrior"; "The
Hump" —
of Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Wallace, Codington
County, S.Dak., May 27,
1911.
Democrat. Pharmacist;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, 1944
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1948,
1952,
1960,
1964;
mayor
of Minneapolis, Minn., 1945-48; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1949-64, 1971-78; died in office 1978;
member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55; candidate
for Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1956;
candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1960,
1972;
Vice
President of the United States, 1965-69; candidate for President
of the United States, 1968.
Congregationalist.
English
and Norwegian
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Council on
Foreign Relations; Knights
of Pythias; Americans
for Democratic Action; American
Federation of Teachers.
Awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1980.
Died, of cancer,
at Waverly, Wright
County, Minn., January
13, 1978 (age 66 years, 231
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.; statue at Minneapolis City Hall Grounds, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Muriel Humphrey Brown (1912-1998) —
also known as Muriel Fay Buck; Muriel Buck
Humphrey —
of Waverly, Wright
County, Minn.; Plymouth, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born in Huron, Beadle
County, S.Dak., February
20, 1912.
Democrat. Second Lady
of the United States, 1965-69; U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1978; appointed 1978.
Female.
Died in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., September
20, 1998 (age 86 years, 212
days).
Interment at Lakewood
Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey III (b. 1942) —
also known as Skip Humphrey —
of New Hope, Hennepin
County, Minn.
Born June 26,
1942.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Minnesota
state senate 44th District, 1973-82; Minnesota
state attorney general, 1983-99; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Minnesota, 1984,
1996
(delegation chair); Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for U.S.
Senator from Minnesota, 1988; Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate
for Governor of
Minnesota, 1998.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Optimist
Club; Alpha
Sigma Phi; American
Association of Retired Persons.
Still living as of 2003.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey IV —
also known as Buck Humphrey —
of Minnesota.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota,
2000;
Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate for secretary
of state of Minnesota, 2002.
Still living as of 2002.
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