U.S. Vice Presidents: Walter Mondale

Vice President Mondale...

• ...joined the United States Army and served a couple of years at Fort Knox during the Korean War.
• ...filled the Senate seat of Hubert Humphrey, who was elected to be Vice President.
• ...was a strong supporter of the 1965 Voting Right Act.

Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American politician, diplomat and lawyer who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A United States senator from Minnesota (1964–1976), he was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1984 United States presidential election, but lost to incumbent Ronald Reagan in an Electoral College and popular vote landslide. Reagan won 49 states while Mondale carried his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. In October 2002, Mondale became the last-minute choice of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party to run for Senate after the death of Senator Paul Wellstone, but was defeated by Saint Paul Mayor Norm Coleman. Mondale became the oldest living former U.S. vice president after the death of George H. W. Bush in 2018.

 “Mr. Reagan will raise taxes; and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did. ”

"We don't go it alone. We go with everybody."

 "We have a lot of problems confronting our nation: the possibility of war, the growing threat in Korea, a serious threat of terrorism clearly around."

—Walter Mondale

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