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Sep 17, 2011 · Sep 17, 2011. FILE - In this Oct. 29, 1984 file photo, Eleanor Mondale, daughter of Democratic Presidential nominee Walter Mondale, passes out campaign literature for her father on Chicago's ...
Sen. Walter Mondale with wife Joan and children MINNEAPOLIS, MN - October 21, 1964: The Mondale family portrait in 1964: Walter, Joan, and children Eleanor, William and Ted. (Photo by Duane Braley/Star Tribune via Getty Images)
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For a man who toiled at the highest levels of national politics and international diplomacy, “Fritz” Mondale had distinctly humble beginnings. Born in the tiny farming town of Ceylon, Minn., just north of the Iowa border, on Jan. 5, 1928, he was the son of a Methodist minister, Theodore Mondale, and a part-time music teacher, Claribel. Mondale once...
He enrolled at Macalester College in 1946 and quickly became active in politics. In 1947 he organized the “Diaper Brigade” of student volunteers who assisted Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey and other leaders of the newly merged Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party seize control from left-wing extremists. The following year he helped Humphrey win his fir...
A year before finishing law school, he married Joan Adams Mondale, the daughter of the Macalester College chaplain. They had three children: Ted, Eleanor and William. Mrs. Mondale, known as “Joan of Art” because of her tireless promotion of the arts as America’s second lady and a fixture of the Twin Cities cultural scene, died in 2014 after battlin...
While establishing a private law practice in Minneapolis, Mondale managed Freeman’s successful campaign for a third term as governor in 1958. Two years later, Freeman appointed Mondale, then just 32 and four years out of law school, as attorney general to fill the vacancy created when Miles Lord was named U.S. attorney. Throughout his career, Monda...
When Humphrey was elected vice president in 1964, DFL Gov. Karl Rolvaag appointed Mondale to fill Humphrey’s vacant Senate seat. He was elected to a full six-year Senate term in 1966 and re-elected by a wide margin in 1972. As a legislator, Mondale compiled a solidly liberal record. He championed government intervention to help the poor, the elderl...
He devoted much of his time and energy to children’s issues. He advocated for increased funding for health care, education, day care, nutrition and developmental services, and while he didn’t get everything he sought (President Nixon vetoed his ambitious Economic Opportunity Act of 1971), he managed to push through increased appropriations for many...
Mondale toyed with the idea of running for president in the 1976 election, but bowed out in 1974, saying “I don’t want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.” But when Carter asked him to be his running mate, Mondale jumped at the chance. After their election, he made history by redefining the role of the vice president in the U.S. government...
After his defeat, Mondale remained active in civic and political affairs. He lectured at the University of Minnesota and established the Mondale Policy Forum at the university’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He traveled around the globe promoting international relations, served on numerous non-profit and corporate boards of directors and campa...
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Apr 20, 2021 · Obituary: Walter F. Mondale. Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale, former Vice President of the United States, passed away peacefully from natural causes on April 19, 2021 at age 93, at his home in ...
May 2, 2022 · President Joe Biden remembered his colleague and friend former Vice President Walter Mondale at Mondale's memorial service on May 1, 2022. Mondale died at age 93 in April 2021, but his memorial ...
Sep 16, 1984 · Allied With Young Veterans. The Zaccaros are under the tutelage of three comparative political veterans, the Mondale children, Ted, 26, Eleanor, 24, and William, 22. The first thing the six had to ...
May 1, 2022 · Mondale died in April of 2021 and this service was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Ted Mondale, Walter's son, thanked the speakers and guests, saying the memorial truly reflected his father ...
