Sen. Hubert Humphrey Jr.

Former Senator from Minnesota

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
1971-1978	Senator	Minnesota
1965-1969	Vice President
1961-1964	Senator	Minnesota
1949-1960	Senator	Minnesota

Sponsorship Analysis

Humphrey was a far-left Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship from Humphrey’s time serving in the Senate.

Use this chart to compare Humphrey to other members of the Senate in the 95^th Congress on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

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Voting Record

From Jan 1949 to Feb 1978, Humphrey missed 1,111 of 6,664 roll call votes, which is 16.7%. This is worse than the median of 10.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Feb 1978. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
1949 Jan-Mar	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Apr-Jun	76	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Jul-Sep	73	0	0.0%	0^th
1949 Oct-Oct	17	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jan-Mar	50	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Apr-Jun	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Jul-Sep	77	0	0.0%	0^th
1950 Dec-Dec	4	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
1951 Jan-Mar	20	1	5.0%	38^th
1951 Apr-Jun	59	4	6.8%	75^th
1951 Jul-Sep	90	8	8.9%	75^th
1951 Oct-Oct	15	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Jan-Mar	12	0	0.0%	0^th
1952 Apr-Jun	93	1	1.1%	38^th
1952 Jul-Jul	6	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jan-Mar	7	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Apr-Jun	38	0	0.0%	0^th
1953 Jul-Jul	37	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jan-Mar	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Apr-Jun	42	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Jul-Sep	88	0	0.0%	0^th
1954 Dec-Dec	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1955 Jan-Mar	26	5	19.2%	92^nd
1955 Apr-Jun	38	5	13.2%	85^th
1955 Jul-Aug	23	1	4.3%	38^th
1956 Jan-Mar	45	2	4.4%	85^th
1956 Apr-Jun	50	2	4.0%	50^th
1956 Jul-Jul	32	0	0.0%	0^th
1957 Jan-Mar	16	2	12.5%	88^th
1957 Apr-Jun	43	6	14.0%	88^th
1957 Jul-Aug	46	3	6.5%	76^th
1958 Feb-Mar	34	3	8.8%	76^th
1958 Apr-Jun	82	5	6.1%	71^st
1958 Jul-Aug	74	2	2.7%	53^rd
1959 Jan-Apr	46	9	19.6%	95^th
1959 May-Aug	123	13	10.6%	68^th
1959 Sep-Sep	29	0	0.0%	0^th
1960 Jan-Apr	71	41	57.7%	95^th
1960 May-Aug	111	25	22.5%	96^th
1960 Sep-Sep	5	5	100.0%	87^th
1961 Jan-Apr	31	0	0.0%	0^th
1961 May-Aug	126	2	1.6%	42^nd
1961 Sep-Sep	34	0	0.0%	0^th
1962 Jan-Mar	17	2	11.8%	93^rd
1962 Apr-Jun	60	3	5.0%	48^th
1962 Jul-Sep	105	8	7.6%	63^rd
1962 Oct-Oct	18	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Jan-Mar	8	0	0.0%	0^th
1963 Apr-Jun	65	3	4.6%	68^th
1963 Jul-Sep	51	6	11.8%	65^th
1963 Oct-Dec	85	2	2.4%	15^th
1964 Jan-Mar	56	0	0.0%	0^th
1964 Apr-Jun	134	1	0.7%	47^th
1964 Jul-Sep	103	6	5.8%	50^th
1964 Oct-Oct	1	1	100.0%	86^th
1971 Feb-Mar	25	9	36.0%	86^th
1971 Apr-Jun	87	14	16.1%	53^rd
1971 Jul-Sep	105	25	23.8%	79^th
1971 Oct-Dec	198	46	23.2%	84^th
1972 Jan-Mar	109	76	69.7%	95^th
1972 Apr-Jun	116	87	75.0%	95^th
1972 Jul-Sep	202	38	18.8%	71^st
1972 Oct-Oct	75	20	26.7%	66^th
1973 Jan-Mar	67	7	10.4%	55^th
1973 Apr-Jun	179	10	5.6%	31^st
1973 Jul-Sep	160	14	8.8%	59^th
1973 Oct-Dec	168	22	13.1%	63^rd
1974 Jan-Mar	93	16	17.2%	77^th
1974 Apr-Jun	177	8	4.5%	33^rd
1974 Jul-Sep	134	24	17.9%	81^st
1974 Oct-Dec	133	26	19.5%	67^th
1975 Jan-Mar	117	18	15.4%	83^rd
1975 Apr-Jun	140	12	8.6%	46^th
1975 Jul-Sep	166	28	16.9%	85^th
1975 Oct-Dec	177	29	16.4%	85^th
1976 Jan-Mar	101	5	5.0%	44^th
1976 Apr-Jun	261	46	17.6%	74^th
1976 Jul-Sep	309	59	19.1%	76^th
1976 Oct-Oct	13	5	38.5%	61^st
1977 Jan-Mar	91	9	9.9%	59^th
1977 Apr-Jun	175	21	12.0%	65^th
1977 Jul-Sep	218	152	69.7%	98^th
1977 Oct-Dec	121	107	88.4%	98^th
1978 Jan-Mar	1	1	100.0%	97^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

Recent Legislative Activity

Elections and Offices

Sen. Hubert Humphrey [D-MN, 1971-1978] leaves office as Senator from Minnesota

Oct 15, 1978

Elections and Offices

Sen. Hubert Humphrey [D-MN, 1971-1978] takes office as Senator from Minnesota

Jan 21, 1971

Elections and Offices

Sen. Hubert Humphrey [D-MN, 1971-1978] leaves office as Vice President

Jan 20, 1969

Elections and Offices

Sen. Hubert Humphrey [D-MN, 1971-1978] takes office as Vice President

Jan 20, 1965

Elections and Offices

Sen. Hubert Humphrey [D-MN, 1971-1978] leaves office as Senator from Minnesota

Oct 03, 1964