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Hubert Humphrey

[Congressional biography]

Born: May 27, 1911 in Wallace, SD
Died: August 13, 1978 in Waverly, MN

Education:

  • Denver College of Pharmacy, 1933
  • University of Minnesota, 1939
  • Louisiana State University, 1940

Career:

  • Pharmacist
  • Professor

Elected Office:

  • Mayor of Minneapolis, 1945-1948
  • U.S. Vice-President, 1965-1969
  • Democrat candidate for President, 1968

Other notes:

  • Husband of Muriel Humphrey


Election Results for Hubert Humphrey


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YearAgeStatePartyOfficeDistrictStagePosVotes%
1948 37 MN DFL U.S. Senate Class 2 Primary 1 204,175 89.1%
1948 37 MN DFL U.S. Senate Class 2 General 1 729,494 59.8%
1954 43 MN DFL U.S. Senate Class 2 General 1 642,193 56.4%
1960 49 MN DFL U.S. Senate Class 2 Primary 1 289,525 100.0%
1960 49 MN DFL U.S. Senate Class 2 General 1 884,168 57.5%
1970 59 MN DFL U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 338,705 79.2%
1970 59 MN DFL U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 788,256 57.8%
1976 65 MN DFL U.S. Senate Class 1 Primary 1 317,632 91.3%
1976 65 MN DFL U.S. Senate Class 1 General 1 1,290,736 67.5%


Age: Age as of July 1 of the year pertaining to this election.



Ideology Data for Hubert Humphrey


Click on the number in the 'Conserv.' column to see all of the key votes for that year.

YearAgeBodyConservative
Coalition		Party UnityPresidential
Support		Vote %LiberalConserv.
P
1949 38 Senate 93 4 D 98 100
1950 39 Senate 77 11 D 81 94
1951 40 Senate 76 7 D 76 100
1952 41 Senate 81 12 D 81 100
1953 42 Senate 88 10 R 56 87 93
1954 43 Senate 85 9 R 34 57 87 100
1955 44 Senate 85 4 R 52 33 85 100
1956 45 Senate 86 14 R 52 48 95 100
1957 46 Senate 55 29 R 65 23 87 100
1958 47 Senate 86 7 R 43 45 89 100
1959 48 Senate 2 80 69 8 R 36 46 81 100
1960 49 Senate 0 63 58 3 R 21 40 49 100
1961 50 Senate 0 94 92 1 D 85 10 92 100 0
1962 51 Senate 6 71 79 2 D 81 6 81 92 0
1963 52 Senate 2 90 91 0 D 88 2 88 94 0
1964 53 Senate 2 82 87 4 D 84 6 92 100 6
1971 60 Senate 11 69 67 13 R 37 44 75 96 0
1972 61 Senate 5 51 47 6 R 24 46 53 83 0
1973 62 Senate 10 83 82 7 R 34 59 88 85 8
1974 63 Senate 13 76 74 15 R 36 54 85 90 6
1975 64 Senate 7 79 81 4 R 46 48 85 94* 3
1976 65 Senate 9 75 82 4 R 34 53 83 90 9
1977 66 Senate 5 35 48 3 D 57 11 50 89 8
Lifetime conservative rating:   5%


Age: Age as of July 1 of the year pertaining to this row.


Conservative Coalition: According to the publication "Congressional Quarterly" (CQ), this is an alliance of Republicans and Southern Democrats (from back when Southern Democrats tended to be conservative or at least moderate) against Northern Democrats in Congress.

This concept had significant meaning perhaps through the 1980's. These statistics stopped being computed after 2000 because conservative Democrats no longer existed except in very rare cases. The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with the coalition; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the coalition. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast.


Party Unity: According to CQ, a Party Unity vote in Congress is one in which the parties were split, with a majority of Democrats opposing a majority of Republicans.

The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with his party; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the party. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast.


Presidential Support: These are votes for which the President has stated his position, either in via a message to Congress, by press conference remarks or other public statements and documents.

The number under the green check is the percentage of time this Representative or Senator voted with the President; the number under the red X is the percentage of the time he opposed the President. The numbers often do not add to 100% because of instances where no vote was cast. The "P" column indicates the party of the President in each year.


Vote %: The percentage of roll-call votes in which this Representaive or Senator participated by voting "Yes" or "No" (as opposed to "Present" or not voting at all.)


Liberal Rating: These ratings are based on key votes as identifed by the ultra-liberal advocacy organization called "Americans for Democratic Action" (ADA). They have been rating members of Congress since 1947. The number shown is the percentage of the time this Representative or Senator took the liberal position on a key issue. The methodology behind the calculation can be found here. Ratings followed by an asterisk were calculated the "ADA way" due to missing data regarding key votes in the ADA source material.


Conservative Rating: These ratings are based on key votes as identifed by the conservative advocacy organization called the "American Conservative Union" (ACU). They have been rating members of Congress since 1971. The number shown is the percentage of the time this Representative or Senator took the conservative position on a key issue.

The liberal and conservative ratings are not expected to add to 100% because the two groups use different sets of key votes to determine their ratings. Conservative ratings from 1961 through 1970 (and for 2024) were calculated based on key votes as selected by the creators of this website.