For American Pharmacist Month, we remember Hubert Humphrey, one-time vice president of the United States under Lyndon B. Johnson, and a trained pharmacist with a novel sympathy for domesticated pigs. Humphrey earned his pharmacist’s license from the Capitol College of Pharmacy in Denver, Colo., and then returned to his home state of South Dakota to help his father run the family pharmacy from 1931 until 1937. To supplement their dispensary operation for humans, they also patented medicines that humans and hogs could take, and their shop was notable for the wooden sign out front that featured a pig. Of course, all this was before his storied career in politics, first as mayor of Minneapolis, then senator from Minnesota (non-concurrent sentences before and after his vice presidency), as well as Senate Majority Whip, and, memorably, a failed presidential candidate in 1968.
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