5/30/2023 0 Comments Hubert Humphrey by Carl Solberg![]() ![]() 1 On September 3, 1936, Muriel Buck married Hubert Humphrey and, within a year, Muriel began helping to fund her husband’s college education at the University of Minnesota and his graduate studies at Louisiana State University. It was at that time that she met a young man tending counter at his father’s pharmacy, Hubert Horatio Humphrey. From 1931 to 1932, she attended classes at Huron College. Muriel Buck was raised in a Presbyterian home and was educated in public schools. ![]() Her father supported the family as a produce middleman, buying and selling such staples as cream, eggs, and poultry. Muriel Fay Buck was born on February 20, 1912, in Huron, South Dakota, to Andrew and Jessie May Buck. As only the second Minnesota woman ever to serve in Congress, Muriel Humphrey pursued her own interests during her brief tenure, supporting an extension of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) ratification deadline and advocating several programs to benefit people with developmental disabilities. When Senator Humphrey passed away in 1978, his political partner and adviser, Muriel, emerged to fill his seat and carry out his programs. The archetypical political wife, Muriel Humphrey supported her husband, Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., during a career that took him from being a clerk at his father’s pharmacy in North Dakota to a political powerbroker in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party and national prominence in the Senate and, finally, as Vice President. ![]()
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