Muriel Buck Humphrey, wife of
Hubert H. Humphrey. She later remarried and took the name Muriel Humphrey Brown. Muriel Humphrey served as a
Senator from
Minnesota. She was born Muriel Fay Buck in
Huron, South.Dakokta[?],
February 20,
1912. She attended
Huron College[?]. She was appointed as a
Democrat by the Governor of
Minnesota. to the
United States Senate,
January 25,
1978, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband,
Hubert H. Humphrey and served from
January 25,
1978 to
November 7,
1978. She was not a candidate for election to the unexpired term. She died on
September 20,
1998 and is interned in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis next to her first husband
Hubert H. Humphrey.