C25253-10, President Reagan and Democratic candidate Walter Mondale during the second debate on foreign policy in Kansas City, Missouri. 10/21/1984. Reagan White House Photographs; White House Photographic Collection; Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, CA.

Walter Mondale

Vice President of the United States (1977-1981), United States Senator (D-MN) (1964-1976)

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Place of BirthCeylon, MN, USA

Place of DeathMinneapolis, MN, USA

Walter Frederick Mondale (b. Jan. 25, 1928, Ceylon, Minn.), senator from Minnesota and Vice President of the United States. He attended the Heron Lake and Elmore, Minnesota public schools, then attended Macalester College in St. Paul. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1951. He served in the United States Army from 1951 to 1953, then graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1956, getting admitted to the Minnesota bar the same year. He commenced practice in Minneapolis. He was appointed and elected attorney general of Minnesota in 1960 and reelected in 1962. He was appointed on December 30, 1964, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hubert H. Humphrey for the term ending January 3, 1967, then elected in 1966 for the term commencing January 3, 1967, and reelected in 1972 and served from December 30, 1964, until his resignation December 30, 1976. He was chairman of the Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity (Ninety-first and Ninety-second Congresses) then elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket with President Jimmy Carter on November 2, 1976, serving unti January 1981. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for reelection and unsuccessful Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1984. He was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan from 1993 to 1996 and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2002.

Dates in Office 1964 - 1976 United States Senator from Minnesota
1977 - 1981 Vice President of the United States
1993 - 1996 United States Ambassador to Japan

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