Minnesota elected Humphrey to the United States Senate in 1948 on the DFL ticket, defeating James M. Shields in the primary for the DFL nomination with 89% of the vote,[REF] and unseating incumbent Republican Joseph H. Ball with 60% of the vote in the general election [REF].
While President John F. Kennedy is often credited for creating the Peace Corps, the first initiative came from Humphrey when he introduced the first bill to create the Peace Corps in 1957-three years prior to JFK and his University of Michigan speech [REF].