President Jimmy Carter was the first President to formally give his Vice President, Walter Mondale, an office in the West Wing of the White House.

Working as a lawyer in Minneapolis, Mondale was elected to the position of attorney general in 1960.

In the election, Mondale was defeated in a landslide by President Reagan, gaining electoral votes from only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.

After the election, Mondale joined the Minnesota-based law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs ( 1986 – 93 ), and was credited with successes in Poland and Hungary.

Walter Frederick Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, the son of Claribel Hope ( née Cowan ), a part-time music teacher, and Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodist minister.

His half-brother Lester Mondale was a Unitarian minister.

Mondale was educated at Macalester College in St. Paul and the University of Minnesota, where he earned his B. A.

Hollings ' wit and experience, as well as his call for a budget freeze, won him some positive attention, but his relatively conservative record alienated liberal Democrats, and he was never really noticed in a field dominated by Walter Mondale, John Glenn and Gary Hart.

He notably referred to Mondale as a " lapdog " and to former Astronaut Glenn as " Sky King " who was " confused in his capsule.

Mondale defeated Glenn for the nomination however, and he was left with $ 3 million in campaign debt for over 20 years before he was granted a reprieve by the Federal Election Commission.

In 1972, Cottle County was the only one in Texas north of Maverick County ( Eagle Pass ) to have been won by George McGovern and Walter Mondale won a majority of the county's votes in 1984.

The county has been consistently Democrat in Presidential voting since 1976 and was among the counties to be carried by Walter Mondale in 1984.

Elmore was the boyhood home of former U. S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale.

* Walter Mondale, former Vice President of the United States, United States Senator, Minnesota Attorney General, and Presidential nominee was born in Ceylon.

In the 1940s, Theodore S. Mondale, the father of future Vice President of the United States Walter Mondale, was the pastor at First Methodist Church of St. James.

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Or, in 1984, when male Walter Mondale was paired with female Geraldine Ferraro.

Thousands of signatures were obtained from all over the nation, and the final approval was given by Citizens Stamp Committee member Joan Mondale, wife of former Vice President Walter Mondale.

A single vice-presidential debate was also held that year between Democratic Senator Walter Mondale and Republican Senator Bob Dole.

In the run up to the 1984 Democratic National Convention, there was considerable media and public speculation that Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale might pick Feinstein as his running mate.

Walter Frederick " Fritz " Mondale ( born January 5, 1928 ) is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States ( 1977 – 1981 ) under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota ( 1964 – 1976 ).

The Springfield Shopper headline from the day Lisa was born (" Mondale to Hart: Where's the beef?

Mondale was born in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, the son of Methodist minister and World War I hero Theodore Sigvaard Mondale and Jessie Alice Larson.

Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college ; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3, 761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.

In 2012, Walter Mondale, former Democratic Vice President of the United States, and Arne Carlson, former Republican governor of Minnesota, referred in an op-ed piece to the political activities of the Koch family and ALEC, saying:

The Senate resolution creating the position stated that any former president or former vice president serving in the Senate would be entitled to this position, though none has served since Humphrey's death in 1978, and former vice president Walter Mondale, who sought a seat in Minnesota in 2002, is the only one to have tried.

Important members of the party have included Minneapolis mayor Hubert H. Humphrey and Minnesota Attorney General Walter Mondale, who each went on to be United States Senators, Vice Presidents of the United States, and unsuccessful Democratic nominees for president, Humphrey in 1968 and Mondale in 1984 ; Eugene McCarthy, a Senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968 as an anti-Vietnam War candidate ; and Paul Wellstone, a Senator from 1991 – 2002 who became an icon of populist progressivism.

* Fritz, nickname of Walter F. Mondale, former vice president of the United States and U. S. senator from Minnesota

By 1959, tensions rose to the point where the Metropolitan Municipalities Commission, a predecessor of the Twin Cities-wide Metropolitan Council, asked the then-State Attorney General Walter Mondale to contest the Hilltop charter to the Minnesota Supreme Court.

The local voters, unlike the rest of Minnesota, voted overwhelmingly against Mondale in the 1984 election.

In 1984, Ronald W. Reagan carried 9, 078 votes in Hutchinson County to only 2, 052 for the Democrat Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota.

Presidential candidates from smaller states sometimes choose a vice presidential running mate from a state with a large number of electoral votes-as when Walter Mondale of Minnesota ( 10 votes ) selected Geraldine Ferraro of New York ( then 36 votes ).

By 1998 he was again encouraged to run for higher office, and entered the DFL gubernatorial primary, winning handily in a crowded field ( which included another scion of an eminent Minnesota political family, Ted Mondale ).

Dayton took the oath of office to become Governor of Minnesota on January 3, 2011 ; former Vice President and Senator Walter Mondale served as Master of Ceremony at the inauguration.

With fellow Senate Banking Committee Member, Walter Mondale the Minnesota Democrat, he co-authored the 1968 Fair Housing Act which prohibits discrimination in housing and created HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity as the primary enforcer of the law.

With Gary Eichten of Minnesota Public Radio, Paul co-moderated a memorable debate between United States Senate candidates Walter Mondale and Norm Coleman.

* Minnesota Public Radio: Coleman, Mondale debate on eve of election

Minnesota narrowly supported native Walter Mondale in 1984 in an election where Ronald Reagan won every other state.

Her younger brother is attorney William H. Mondale, the former assistant Minnesota attorney general.

Walter Mondale ran unsuccessfully for president in 1984, served as U. S. Ambassador to Japan from 1993 – 96, and then sought unsuccessfully to return to the Senate in 2002.

The surname " Mondale " comes from Mundal by Fjærland, in the Sogndal Commune of Norway.

Old friends and opponents of Humphrey, from Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon to President Carter and Vice-President Walter Mondale paid their final respects.

Among the graduates from this campus are two former U. S. Vice Presidents, Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale, former NAACP president Roy Wilkins, several Nobel prize winners, several athletes such as Ric Flair, Kevin McHale, Dave Winfield, Patty Berg, Brock Lesnar, Curt Hennig, Shelton Benjamin, Bobby Jackson of the NBA, and composer Yanni.

Mondale had held the same Senate seat from 1964 to 1977.

Hart had moved his candidacy from dark horse to the lead over Mondale based on allegedly superficial similarities to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his repeated use of the phrase " new ideas ".

Evidence for this notion stems from a study where participants either imagined the winner of the debate, or came up with reasons for why Reagan or Mondale would win the debate.

Mondale secured the majority of delegates from the primaries, leading the way for him to take the Democratic nomination.

After graduating from St. Lawrence University, Mondale quickly earned a reputation in the media for being a " wild-child ", although she claims many of the rumors were unfounded.

In early 1988, Mondale took a leave of absence from WCKG to collaborate with a Chicago writer on a book about the children of U. S. presidents.

For example, using the Strauss and Howe definition, no US President has come from the Silent Generation ; the few from the generation who ran for President include: Walter Mondale, Ron Paul, John McCain, Michael Dukakis, Newt Gingrich, Ralph Nader, Jack Kemp and Rev Jesse Jackson.

It was said of him when receiving the award: “ Henry's unwavering dedication to this country's inner city economies is a testament to the difference one person can make .” In 2007, Cisneros was honored with the prestigious “ Housing Person of the Year ” Award from the National Housing Conference, where it was said: “ Without question Henry Cisneros has demonstrated a life-long dedication to providing housing to America's working families …” Together with Jack Kemp, he received the Walter F. Mondale and Edward W. Brooke Fair Housing Award in June 2009 from the Fair Housing Alliance.

Rock said in HBO First Look that he got the idea from the 1984 Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale, who chose Geraldine Ferraro — a woman — as his running mate.