IIRC Hubert Humphrey was called a "happy warrior" which turns out to be a poem by Wordsworth
The label has been applied to others, notably Al Smith by FDR, but Googling "happy warrior" and "Humbert Humphrey" has 285,000 hits.
Because the voting age was 21, I couldn't vote in 1960, but Humphrey was my candidate. He made perhaps the most important political speech ever in the 1948 Democratic convention, one on behalf of civil rights and one which meant the exodus from the convention of the Dixiecrats who ended with Strom Thurmond as their candidate.
Once elected senator he was a stalwart for liberal causes through the 1950's, serving as a bridge between LBJ and the liberals, being active in many causes.
After Humphrey Walter Mondale and then Paul Wellstone continued the heritage of Minnesota liberalism in the Senate.
Klobuchar worked as an intern for Mondale, who has been a mentor to her since. And Wellstone encouraged her first run for office.
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