Editing Hubert Humphrey (section)

==Mayor of Minneapolis (1945–1948)==
After the war, Humphrey again ran for mayor of Minneapolis; this time, he won the June 1945 general election with 61% of the vote.<ref name="Mayor Humphrey"/> As mayor, he helped ensure the appointment of a friend and previous neighbor, Edwin Ryan, as head of the police department, as he needed a "police chief whose integrity and loyalty would be above reproach."<ref name="Reichard, 1998">{{cite journal |last1=Reichard |first1=Gary W. |title=Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey |journal=Minnesota History |date=1998 |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=50–67 |jstor=20188091 }}</ref> Though they had differing views of labor unions, Ryan and Humphrey worked together to crack down on crime in Minneapolis. Humphrey told Ryan, "I want this town cleaned up and I mean I want it cleaned up now, not a year from now or a month from now, right now", and "You take care of the law enforcement. I'll take care of the politics."<ref name="Romskog">{{cite web|url=http://historyapolis.com/blog/tag/ed-ryan/|title=Ed Ryan|date=November 4, 2014|access-date=June 14, 2024|archive-date=March 27, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327135802/http://historyapolis.com/blog/tag/ed-ryan/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Humphrey served as mayor from 1945 to 1948,<ref name="Humphrey Bioguide">{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=h000953|title=HUMPHREY, Hubert Horatio Jr., (1911–1978)|publisher=bioguide.congress.gov}}</ref> winning reelection in 1947 by the largest margin in the city's history to that time. Humphrey gained national fame by becoming one of the founders of the liberal anticommunist [[Americans for Democratic Action]] (ADA), and he served as chairman from 1949 to 1950.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00720/pdf/hhh2.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00720/pdf/hhh2.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|title= Manuscript Collections Hubert H. Humphrey PapersAn Inventory of His Mayor's Political Files|author=Minnesota Historical Society|publisher=mnhs.org|date=April 19, 2013}}</ref> He also reformed the Minneapolis police force.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylvmr909jUQC&pg=PA42|title=The Politics of Equality|author=Timothy N. Thurber|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=1999|isbn=9780231110464}}</ref> The city had been named the "[[anti-Semitism]] capital" of the country,<ref>McWilliams, Carey. "Minneapolis: The Curious Twin," Common Ground. September 1946, p. 61.</ref> and its small African-American population also faced discrimination. Humphrey's mayoralty is noted for his efforts to fight all forms of bigotry.{{sfn|Caro|2002|p=440}} He formed the Council on Human Relations and established a municipal version of the [[Fair Employment Practice Committee]], making Minneapolis one of only a few cities in the United States to prohibit racial discrimination in the workforce.<ref>{{cite book|title=Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights And The Transformation Of The Democratic Party|pages=93–95|first=Jennifer A.|last=Delton|year=2002|publisher=978-0816639229}}</ref> Humphrey and his publicists were proud that the Council on Human Relations brought together individuals of varying ideologies.<ref>{{cite book|title=Making Minnesota Liberal: Civil Rights And The Transformation Of The Democratic Party|page=103|first=Jennifer A.|last=Delton|year=2002|publisher=978-0816639229}}</ref> In 1960, Humphrey told journalist [[Theodore H. White]], "I was mayor once, in Minneapolis ... a mayor is a fine job, it's the best job there is between being a governor and being the President."<ref>White, p. 106</ref>

A 1993 survey of historians, political scientists and urban experts by Melvin G. Holli of the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]] ranked Humphrey as the 28th-best American big-city mayor to have served between 1820 and 1993.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Holli | first = Melvin G. | title = The American Mayor | publisher = PSU Press | year = 1999 | location = University Park | url = https://archive.org/details/americanmayorbes0000holl | isbn = 0-271-01876-3 }}</ref>