Walter Mondale
US Vice President
1928 –
Who is Walter Mondale?
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota. He was the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in the United States presidential election of 1984.
Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1951. He then served in the U.S. Army in the Korean War before earning a law degree in 1956. He married Joan Adams in 1955. Working as a lawyer in Minneapolis, Mondale was elected to the position of attorney general in 1960. He was appointed U.S. Senator in late 1964 as a member of the Democratic Party upon the resignation of Hubert Humphrey, and held that post until 1976. In the Senate, he supported fair housing, tax reform, and the desegregation of schools. He opposed United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
In 1976 Carter, the Democratic presidential nominee, chose Mondale as his vice presidential running mate in the forthcoming election. The Carter/Mondale ticket defeated incumbent president Gerald Ford. Carter and Mondale's time in office was marred by a worsening economy, and although both were renominated by the Democratic Party, they lost the 1980 election to Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
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- Born
- Jan 5, 1928
Ceylon - Also known as
- Vice President Walter Mondale
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale
- Fritz
- Norwegian wood
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Joan Mondale
(1955/12/27 - )
- Joan Mondale
- Children
- Religion
- Methodism
- Presbyterianism
- Ethnicity
- Norwegian American
- Scandinavian American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Minnesota
- Macalester College
- University of Minnesota Law School
- Lived in
- Minneapolis
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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