Muriel Humphrey

(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.