Walter Frederick Mondale (1928 - 2021)

Born 5 Jan 1928 in Ceylon, Minnesota, USA

Ancestors

Died 19 Apr 2021 at age 93 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States

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Preceded by 41st Vice President Nelson Rockefeller Preceded by Hubert Humphrey

Walter Mondale 42nd Vice President of the United States 1965—1969 US Senator (Class 2) from Minnesota 1964—1976

Succeeded by 43rd Vice President George H. W. Bush Succeeded by Wendell Anderson

Biography

Walter Mondale is Notable.

Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale - 42nd Vice President of the United States Term in Office: January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981

Birth: January 5, 1928 in Ceylon, Minnesota, USA

Parents:

Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodist minister

Claribel (Cowan) Mondale

Timeline

1948 - Worked on the U.S. Senate campaign of Hubert H. Humphrey.

1951 - Graduated from the University of Minnesota.

1951 - Served in the United States Army 1951-1953.

1956 - Graduated from University of Minnesota Law School earning his law degree.

1960 - Served as State Attorney General from 1960 to 1964.

1964 - He was appointment to fill Humphrey’s unexpired Senate term when Humphrey won election as vice president under Lyndon B. Johnson.

1966 - Mondale, a “flexible liberal,” won election to the Senate

1972 - Reelection

1980 - The Carter-Mondale ticket was defeated for reelection by Ronald Reagan and George Bush.

1984 - Mondale captured the Democratic presidential nomination and chose Geraldine A. Ferraro as his running mate, the first woman vice presidential candidate for a major party. They lost the election to Reagan-Bush. Afterward Mondale practiced law until he was appointed ambassador to Japan (1993–96) by President Bill Clinton. In 2002 Paul Wellstone, the Democratic senator from Minnesota, was killed in a plane crash while campaigning to retain his seat, and the Democratic Party nominated Mondale to take Wellstone’s place on the ballot. Mondale accepted the nomination but was narrowly defeated by Republican Norm Coleman. A memoir by Mondale, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, was published in 2010.^[1]

Spouse:

Joan Adams (1955–2014; her death)

Children:

Theodore A. Mondale

Eleanor Mondale (deceased)

William Mondale

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/389066/Walter-Mondale

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale
• http://www.mnc.net/norway/Mondale.htm
• http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000851

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