Title: Politics of Minnesota - Wikipedia
Headings: Politics of Minnesota
Politics of Minnesota
Contents
Long-term trends
Historical figures of note
John Pillsbury
Frank Kellogg
Floyd B. Olson
Harold Stassen
Hubert Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
Orville Freeman
Walter Mondale
Paul Wellstone
Jesse Ventura
Historically progressive
Third party movements
Law and government
Legislature
Executive
Judiciary
Regional government
Federal representation
Gallery of members of the U.S. Senate
Gallery of members of the U.S. House of Representatives
See also
References
External links

Content: He lost the nomination to Thomas Dewey, however, who had already lost in the presidential election of 1944 to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Stassen played a key role in the 1952 Republican contest when he released his delegates to Dwight D. Eisenhower. This helped Eisenhower to defeat Robert A. Taft on the first ballot. He served in the Eisenhower Administration, filling posts including director of the Mutual Security Administration (foreign aid) and Special Assistant to the President for Disarmament. During this period he held cabinet rank and led a quixotic effort to "dump Nixon " at the 1956 Republican National Convention. Stassen gained a reputation as a liberal, particularly when, as president of the American Baptist Convention in 1963, he joined Martin Luther King Jr. in his march on Washington, D.C. He was a prime representative of the socially-progressive " Rockefeller Republican " wing of American Republicanism. Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was the 38th Vice President of the United States, serving under President Lyndon Johnson. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party and Americans for Dem