Hubert Humphrey

Hubert Humphrey, too, led a remarkable life, said Edward Kosner in The Wall Street Journal. Historian Arnold Offner “perhaps overrates his subject” when he labels the onetime Minnesota senator the most successful legislator in U.S. history. Still, the man who lost to Richard Nixon in 1968 was a courageous voice for civil rights long before his party embraced the cause, and he was an effective leader—until he wasn’t. “Aside from Vietnam, he was on the right side of history on most issues.”