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Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician and statesman who served as the 38th vice president of the United States ...
The 1968 presidential campaign of Hubert Humphrey began when Hubert Humphrey, the 38th and incumbent Vice President of the United States, decided to seek the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States on April 27, 1968, after incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson withdrew his bid for reelection to a second full term on March 31, 1968, and endorsed him as his successor.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1968. Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace.
Humphrey's campaign concentrated on winning the delegates in non-primary states, where party leaders controlled the delegate votes. Humphrey did not compete in the primaries, leaving favorite sons to win delegates as surrogates, notably Senator George A. Smathers from Florida, Senator Stephen M. Young from Ohio, and Indiana Governor Roger D ...
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Humphrey and Muskie together at the Democratic National Convention. The convention was among the most tense and confrontational political conventions ever in American history, marked by fierce debate and protest over the Vietnam peace talks and controversy over the heavy-handed police tactics of the convention's host, Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago.
Launch of the Hubert Humphrey 1968 presidential campaign on April 27, 1968. Humphrey officially became the Democratic presidential nominee on August 29, 1968. Richard Nixon elected the 37th president on November 5, 1968. Johnson retired when Nixon was inaugurated on January 20, 1969.
English: US Vice President Hubert Humphrey photographed by Bernard Gotfryd in New York, 1968. (Bernard Gotfryd dedicated all of his works into the public domain following his death in 2016) (Bernard Gotfryd dedicated all of his works into the public domain following his death in 2016)