Walter Mondale

**Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale** (January 5, 1928 – April 19, 2021) was an American politician and lawyer. He was the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter. Before becoming vice president, he was a United States senator from Minnesota from 1964 to 1976. He was also the attorney general of Minnesota from 1960 to 1964 and the 24th U.S. ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996 under Bill Clinton.

Mondale was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1984. His vice presidential nominee, Geraldine Ferraro, was the first woman to be nominated. He won in only in Minnesota and Washington, D.C. He lost to President Ronald Reagan of the Republican Party in the other 49 states.

Mondale was the first vice president to have an office. He made the role of vice president more important than it was before by having weekly meetings with Carter.

Mondale died on April 19, 2021, in his sleep at his Minneapolis, Minnesota, home at the age of 93 from natural causes.

## Other websites

- Congressional biography
- Senate Leaders Lecture Series Address
- Minnesota Public Radio: Coleman, Mondale debate on eve of election (November 4, 2002) — featuring audio of the 2002 debate
- Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs: The Mondale Lectures on Public Service
- Great Norwegians
- Two Views from Pennsylvania Avenue
- List of New York Times articles on Mondale
- Senator Mondale transfers money from NASA to social programs using political maneuvers
- AmericanHeritage.com / Lost in Space What Went Wrong with NASA?
- Walter F. Mondale: An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Society

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Walter Mondale
- **birthname**: Walter Frederick Mondale
- **image**: Mn 1984 mondale.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 1977
- **imagesize**: 220px
- **order**: List of vice presidents of the United States, 42nd
- **office**: Vice President of the United States
- **term start**: January 20, 1977
- **term end**: January 20, 1981
- **predecessor**: Nelson Rockefeller
- **successor**: George H. W. Bush
- **jr/sr3**: United States Senator
- **state3**: Minnesota
- **term start3**: December 30, 1964
- **term end3**: December 30, 1976
- **predecessor3**: Hubert Humphrey
- **successor3**: Wendell Anderson
- **order4**: 24th
- **ambassador from4**: United States
- **country4**: Japan
- **term start4**: September 21, 1993
- **term end4**: December 15, 1996
- **predecessor4**: Michael Armacost
- **successor4**: Tom Foley
- **president4**: Bill Clinton
- **office5**: 23rd Attorney General of Minnesota
- **term start5**: 1960
- **term end5**: 1964
- **governor5**: Orville Freeman
Elmer L. Andersen
Karl Rolvaag
- **predecessor5**: Miles W. Lord
- **successor5**: Robert W. Mattson, Sr.
- **birth place**: Ceylon, Minnesota, U.S.
- **death place**: Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
- **relations**: Lester Mondale
- **party**: Democratic Party (United States), Democratic
- **president**: Jimmy Carter
- **signature**: Walter Mondale Signature.svg
- **branch**: United States Army
- **serviceyears**: 1951–1953
- **rank**: Corporal (United States), Corporal
- **unit**: 3rd Armored Division Artillery (United States), 3rd Armored Division Artillery
- **module**:  Walter Mondale speaking at the second presidential debate of the 1984 United States presidential election, 1984 presidential election
 Recorded October 21, 1984