Walter Mondale

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Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician, diplomat, and advocate who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

Senator Paul Ryan of Minnesota (1964–1976) was the Democratic Party nominee in the 1984 Democratic presidential election in Minnesota, but he lost to Ronald Reagan in an Electoral College landslide.

Reagan gained 49 states, while Mondale retained Minnesota and the District of Columbia.

Since George H.W.Bush's death in 2018, he became the longest-lived former president of the United States. Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, and after attending Macalester College, he graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1951.

He served in the Korean Army during the Korean War before receiving a law degree in 1956.

In 1955, he married Joan Adams.

Attorney Orville Freeman was appointed attorney general in 1960 by a law professor in Minneapolis, and he was elected to a full term as attorney general in 1962 by 60 percent of the votes cast.

Following Humphrey's resignation as vice president in 1964, he was named to the Senate by Governor Karl Rolvaag following Humphrey's resignation.

Mondale was first elected to a full Senate term in 1966 and again in 1972, resigning in 1976 as he prepared to assume the vice presidency in 1977.

While in the Senate, he advocated for consumer rights, fair housing, tax reform, and the desegregation of schools.

He served on the Select Committee to Investigate Governmental Controls with Respect to Intelligence Activities ("Church Committee" in 1976.

Gerald Ford and his vice presidential running mate, Bob Dole, were defeated by the Carter–Mondale ticket.

Carter and Mondale's tenure in office was marred by an ailing economy, and although both were nominated by the Democratic Party, they lost the 1980 election to Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

Mondale received the Democratic presidential nomination and campaigned for a nuclear freeze, the Equal Rights Amendment, an increase in taxes, and a reduction of US public debt in 1984.

Geraldine Ferraro, a congresswoman from New York who was the first female vice presidential nominee of any major party, was his vice presidential nominee.

Reagan and Bush defeated Mondale and Ferraro in the election. Mondale, a man from Minnesota, joined Dorsey & Whitney and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (1986-1993).

In 1993, President Bill Clinton sent Mondale United States Ambassador to Japan; he resigned in 1996.

Mondale ran for his old Senate seat in 2002, pledging to be the last-minute substitute for Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone, who had been killed in a plane crash during the final two weeks of his re-election campaign.

However, Mondale came close to losing the election to Saint Paul mayor Norm Coleman.

He returned to Dorsey & Whitney and remained active in the Democratic Party.

Mondale later took up a part-time teaching job at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H.Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

Early life

Walter Frederick Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, to Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodist minister, and Claribel Hope (née Cowan), a part-time music educator. Lester Mondale, Walter's half-brother, became a Unitarian minister. Clarence, also known as Pete (1926–2014), and William, also known as Mort. His paternal grandparents were Norwegian immigrants with some distant German roots. Frederik Mundal, Mondale's paternal grandfather, emigrated from Norway with his family in 1856, eventually settling in southern Minnesota in 1864. Mondale derives from Mundal, a valley and town in Norway's Fjrland region. His mother was born in Iowa; she was of Scottish and English descent. Robert Cowan, the daughter of an immigrant father, was born in Seaforth, Ontario, was born in Ontario.

Mondale's family felt that the words "Walter" and "Frederick" were too stilted for a boy, so they named him "Fritz," a common German and Scandinavian diminutive form of Friedrich or Frederick. Mondale grew poor as a result of the Great Depression. His family went from Ceylon to Heron Lake in 1934, then to Elmore in 1937. Mondale's childhood was heavily influenced by his father's religious convictions, as well as his support for the civil rights movement. His father died of a stroke in 1948. Mondale attended public schools and then Macalester College for two years before transferring to the University of Minnesota, where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1951.

He joined the United States Army in 1951, shortly after graduating, because Mondale couldn't afford to attend law school. During the Korean War, he served as an armored reconnaissance team soldier first, then as an education services specialist and associate editor of the unit's newsletter, Tanker's Dust. In 1953, he achieved the rank of corporal and was discharged from service. Mondale was enrolled in the University of Minnesota Law School and was aided by the G.I. In 1956, Bill, who was graduated with a Bachelor of Laws, was lauded. He served on the Minnesota Law Review and as a law clerk for Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Thomas F. Gallagher in law school. Joan Adams, who was blind at the time, married Mondale in 1955. He served as a lawyer in Minneapolis for four years before deciding to enter politics.

Family and personal life

Joan Mondale, Mondale's wife, was a national advocate for the arts and served as the Honorary Chairman of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities during the Carter Administration. She died at a hospice in Minneapolis on February 3, 2014, surrounded by family members.

Ted, the Mondales' eldest son, is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Nazca Solutions, a technology fulfillment firm. He is also a former Minnesota state senator. Ted Mondale unsuccessfully attempted to run for governor of Minnesota in 1998, running as a fiscal moderate who had distanced himself from labor.

Eleanor, the Mondales' daughter, was a television presenter. She also appeared on radio talk shows in Chicago and a long-running program on WCCO (AM) in Minneapolis. On September 17, 2011, she died of brain cancer at her Minnesota home, at the age of 51.

William Hall Mondale, the family's younger brother, is a former Minnesota Assistant Attorney General.

In Minneapolis, Mondale had a home near Lake of the Isles. He was a Presbyterian minister. He loved fishing, reading Shakespeare and historical accounts, barbecuing, skiing, Monty Python watching Monty Python, and playing tennis.

Mondale was honoured with a variety of awards. In 1981, he was admitted to Omicron Delta Kappa as an honoris causa scholar at the University of South Carolina. Mondale also had strong links to the University of Minnesota Law School. Walter F. Mondale Hall, the school renamed in 2002. Mondale made cameo appearances at the law school's annual T.O.R.T. "The Ater of the Relatively Talentless") performed his life, allowing his name to be used as the school's hockey team's nickname: the "Fighting Mondales."

Mondale had strong ties to his ancestor, Norway. He took over vice president Hubert Humphrey's seat when he first joined the Senate in 1964. Mondale served on the executive committee of the Peace Prize Forum, the Norwegian Nobel Institute's annual conference. On December 5, 2007, Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Strere announced that Mondale would be named Honorary Consul-General of Norway, representing the Norwegian state in Minnesota.

Mondale was nominated for the American Academy of Neurology for raising brain health in 2015, having lost both his wife and daughter to brain disease.

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