Steeley Hubert Humphrey Jr.

Steeley Hubert Humphrey Jr. (born February 1942), better known as Hubert Humphrey, is an American businessman, financial executive, and insurance broker. He is best known for founding and leading multi-level marketing financial and insurance services company World Marketing Alliance (WMA) ( World Financial Group) in 1991, and is currently the Founder, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and Chairman of Hegemon Group International (HGI).

Early life and education Humphrey was born in February 1942 and raised in Macon, Georgia to life and accident insurance agent and World War II Sergeant Steeley Hubert Humphrey Sr. (father) and June Smith Humphrey (mother). Humphrey is the couple's eldest child, and has two sisters and one brother. When Humphrey was a baby, he won a "year's supply of diapers and milk" from a "baby contest sponsored by Carnation" that his mother entered him in. Growing up, Humphrey used to work at a drug store as a soda jerk, a Texaco gas station pumping gas, a grocery store as a floor sweeper and a bicycle deliveryman, a shoe store, a bakery, a plumbing company, and a service station.

Humphrey is a graduate of Lanier Miller High School in 1960. Humphrey then attended Georgia Tech to study Electrical engineering, but dropped out after his freshman year because of his and his wife's first son's expected birth.

Career

Railroad Conductor Humphrey worked as a brakeman and a railroad conductor for both Southern Railway (U.S.) and Central of Georgia Railway for the next seventeen years.

On July 6, 2001, select assets of WMA were sold to Dutch insurance company Aegon for an undisclosed amount and the company was renamed to, what is today, World Financial Group (WFG).

World Leadership Group (WLG) and Hegemon Group International (HGI) (2001–present) The assets that Humphrey kept, after the sale to Aegon, were spun-off into a new organization called World Leadership Group (WLG) which was a business that "dedicated to assisting independent entrepreneurs launch their own private business". In 2006, the company moved their headquarters into a 100,000 square foot office in Johns Creek, Georgia.

In 2014, Humphrey founded Hegemon Group International (HGI). The business was acquired by Integrity Marketing Group in 2022.

La Rêve In the early 2000s, Humphrey and his wife built and owned La Rêve ( in French): A three-storey, 47,000 square-foot mansion in Cumming, Georgia. The mansion contained a total of eighty-two rooms all including a garage with up to twelve cars, seventy-two televisions screens, "two-lane bowling alley, private nine-hole golf course... movie theater modeled after the Fox Theatre (Atlanta)", seventeen bathrooms, two swimming pools, "a replica of the old Central of Georgia Railway", and a "'50s diner with a full service soda fountain and black and white tile floors". The entire construction process costed $35 million. and the Rotary Club's Lanier-Forsyth chapter. The couple also offered guided tours to the general public.

The property went into foreclosure in 2010 and the couple listed the house, at the same year, initially for $50 million. The estate was sold for $11.5 million.

Personal life Humphrey married insurance agent Norma Wynelle Patrick on July 26, 1961. They had four children together, among them were sons Jody and Jeffrey. Humphrey served as a Bishop in the LDS church.

Humphrey was inducted to the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame in 2025.