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In 1984, former vice president and presidential candidate Walter Mondale, seen as an underdog, selected Ferraro to be his running mate in the upcoming election. In doing so Ferraro also became the first widely recognized Italian American to be a major-party national nominee.
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- Ferraro’s Nomination Boosted Mondale’s Ticket
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Down 16 points in the polls when Mondale named Ferarro, then 48, his vice president pick, the excitement surrounding the nomination gave the new ticket a big bounce, bringing the polling to nearly even with Republican challengers Ronald Reagan and his running mate, George H.W. Bush. “The Ferraro pick represented the intersection of principle and po...
Upon the Ferraro announcement, Time magazine ran her on its cover with the headline, “A Historic Choice.” Ann Richards, then state treasurer of Texas, who would go on to serve as governor, said at the time, “The first thing I thought of was not winning, in the political sense, but of my two daughters. To think of the numbers of young women who can ...
While feminists were thrilled with the Ferraro pick, and, overall, voters seemed to receive her positively, most forecasters still saw little hope for a Democratic win. “Of course, in hindsight, it’s clear that—not unlike the McCain-Palin Hail Mary of 2008—Ferraro might have been better vetted by the Democrats’ national leadership,” Parry says. “Bu...
The Mondale-Ferraro ticket may have lost, but Ferraro’s nomination certainly had a role-modeling effect on women, according to Bauer. “Just eight years after Ferraro’s nomination was the first ‘year of the woman’ when record numbers of women swept into congress in 1992, and many of those women have spoken about being inspired by Ferraro to run for ...
Ferraro was the first woman to be named a vice-presidential candidate for a major party, but she and Mondale lost to Reagan and Bush. Learn how Ferraro's nomination boosted Mondale's ticket, but also faced challenges from gender stereotypes and media scrutiny.
- Lesley Kennedy
Aug 11, 2020 · How the first woman to be a major party's candidate for vice president broke the glass ceiling and faced the challenges of gender and politics. Learn about the history, the activists, and the legacy of Ferraro's trailblazing run.
- Lila Thulin
May 2, 2024 · Geraldine Ferraro, American Democratic politician who was the first woman to be nominated for vice president by a major political party in the United States; as such, she served as Walter Mondale’s running mate in the 1984 presidential election. Learn more about Ferraro’s life and career.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 11, 2020 · She follows in the footsteps of Geraldine Ferraro, who became the first woman on a major White House ticket when she was picked to be the running mate of 1984 Democratic presidential candidate...
Mar 26, 2011 · The first female vice presidential candidate for a major party and former Democratic congresswoman, Geraldine Ferraro, passed away in 2011 from multiple myeloma. She ran with Walter Mondale in 1984 and faced George H.W. Bush in a debate that she later regretted.
Mar 26, 2011 · Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Queens congresswoman who strode onto a podium in 1984 to accept the Democratic nomination for vice president and to take her place in American history as the...
