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Senate Years of Service: 1978-1978 Party: Democrat
HUMPHREY, Muriel Buck, (wife of Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr., later Muriel Humphrey Brown),
a Senator from Minnesota; born Muriel Fay Buck in Huron, Beadle
County, S.Dak., February 20, 1912; educated in the public schools; attended
Huron College; appointed on January 25, 1978, as a Democrat to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Hubert
Horatio Humphrey, Jr., and served from January 25, 1978, to November 7, 1978;
was not a candidate for election to the unexpired term; was a resident of
Plymouth, Minnesota until her death on September 20, 1998; interment in
Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.
BibliographyMuriel Humphrey, in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 2006.
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