The 1968 United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 5,1968. The Republican nominee,former vice president Richard Nixon,defeated the Democratic nominee,incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey,and the American Independent Party nominee,former Alabama Governor George Wallace.
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. A U.S. senator from Minnesota from 1964 to 1976,he was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1984 presidential election,but lost to incumbent Ronald Reagan in an Electoral College and popular vote landslide. Reagan won 49 states while Mondale carried his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. His vice presidential nominee,U.S. Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York,was the first female vice-presidential nominee of any major party in U.S. history.
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. was an American pharmacist and politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate,representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. As a senator he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon Johnson's vice president,he supported the controversial Vietnam War. An intensely divided Democratic Party nominated him in the 1968 presidential election,which he lost to Republican nominee Richard Nixon.
The United States order of precedence is an advisory document maintained by the Ceremonials Division of the Office of the Chief of Protocol of the United States which lists the ceremonial order,or relative preeminence,for domestic and foreign government officials at diplomatic,ceremonial,and social events within the United States and abroad. The list is used to mitigate miscommunication and embarrassment in diplomacy,and offer a distinct and concrete spectrum of preeminence for ceremonies. Often the document is used to advise diplomatic and ceremonial event planners on seating charts and order of introduction. Former presidents,vice presidents,first ladies,second ladies,and secretaries of state and retired Supreme Court justices are also included in the list.
John Bowden Connally Jr. was an American politician. He served as the 39th Governor of Texas and as the 61st United States Secretary of the Treasury. He began his career as a Democrat and later became a Republican in 1973.
Ralph Webster Yarborough was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Texas Democratic politician who served in the United States Senate from 1957 to 1971 and was a leader of the progressive wing of his party. Along with Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn,but unlike most Southern congressmen,Yarborough refused to support the 1956 Southern Manifesto,which called for resistance to the racial integration of schools and other public places. Yarborough voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,1960,1964,and 1968,as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,the Voting Rights Act of 1965,and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court. Yarborough was the only senator from a state that was part of the Confederacy to vote for all five bills.
Lawrence Francis O'Brien Jr. was an American politician and basketball commissioner. He was one of the United States Democratic Party's leading electoral strategists for more than two decades. He served as Postmaster General in the cabinet of President Lyndon Johnson and chair of the Democratic National Committee. He also served as commissioner of the National Basketball Association from 1975 to 1984. The NBA Championship Trophy is named after him.
The 1960 Democratic National Convention was held in Los Angeles,California,on July 11–15,1960. It nominated Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts for president and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas for vice president.
John Michael Quinn is an American lawyer,businessman and CNN television commentator.
Thurgood Marshall Jr. is an American lawyer and son of the late Supreme Court of the United States Justice Thurgood Marshall.
Arthur Boggess Culvahouse Jr. is an American attorney who served as the United States Ambassador to Australia from 2019 to 2021.
From March 12 to June 11,1968,Democratic Party voters of several states elected delegates to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey was selected as the nominee in the 1968 Democratic National Convention held from August 26 to August 29,1968,in Chicago,Illinois.
Raymond P. Martinez was a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Transportation and the former Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. From 2010 to 2018,Martinez served as the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission Chair and Chief Administrator in the Cabinet of Governor Chris Christie. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Protocol for the United States Department of State and as New York State Commissioner of Motor Vehiclesin the Cabinet of Governor George Pataki.
Angier Biddle Duke was an American diplomat who served as Chief of Protocol of the United States in the 1960s. Prior to that,at the age of 36,he became the youngest American ambassador in history when he was appointed to be the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador.
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich is an American lawyer and diplomat from California.
Peter A. Selfridge is a U.S. public servant who served as the United States Chief of Protocol from 2014 to 2017. In this role he served as the link between the White House and foreign ambassadors and visiting dignitaries. In addition,his office managed Blair House,the official guesthouse of the President of the United States.
The 1964 presidential campaign of Lyndon B. Johnson was a successful campaign for Johnson and his running mate Hubert Humphrey for their election as president and vice president of the United States. They defeated Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater and vice presidential nominee William Miller. Johnson,a Democrat and former vice president under John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as president upon Kennedy's assassination. In 1964,Johnson did not look optimistically upon the prospect of being elected president in his own right. Despite Johnson's uncertainty about running,he was seen as the most likely candidate to get the nomination. He entered the primaries starting with New Hampshire and won the state by almost 29,000 votes. Johnson's main opponent in the primaries was Alabama Governor George Wallace,who had announced his intention to seek presidency even before Kennedy's assassination.
