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Ideologies / Social Liberal / Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1911–1978 · United States · Vice President & Senator

Hubert Humphrey

The happy warrior

Civil rights and the activist state.

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Governance+24
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The senator whose 1948 civil-rights speech split his party and whose lifelong liberalism — Medicare, the Civil Rights Act, the Peace Corps — made him the 'Happy Warrior' of the activist American centre-left.

social

Landmark civil-rights progressive long before it was safe.

economic

Championed an active federal role — jobs, health care, anti-poverty.

governance

A reforming liberal working tirelessly through institutions.

Notable for
  • 1948 civil-rights convention speech
  • Architect of the Civil Rights Act
  • Co-created the Peace Corps and Medicare
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