Walter Frederick \”Fritz\” Mondale is an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. 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. In 2002, Mondale ran for his old Senate seat, agreeing to be the last-minute replacement for Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash. He retired from the Senate in 1996 and was appointed United States Ambassador to Japan in 1993.
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Walter Frederick \”Fritz\” Mondale is an American politician, diplomat and lawyer. He served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. 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. In 2002, Mondale ran for his old Senate seat, agreeing to be the last-minute replacement for Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone, who died in a plane crash less than two weeks before the election. He became the oldest living former U.S. vice president after the death of George H. W. Bush in 2018. Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, to Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodist minister, and Claribel Hope, a part-time music teacher. His paternal grandparents were Norwegian immigrants, and his mother, the daughter of an immigrant from Ontario, was of Scottish and English descent. The surname \”Mondale\” comes from Mundal, a valley and town in the Fjærland region of Norway. He has two brothers, Clarence, known as Pete, and William,. known as Mort. He married Joan Adams in 1955. He is the father of two sons, Michael and Michael Jr., and a daughter, Amy. He also has a step-son, David, who is the son of former Minnesota Gov. Paul Rolvaag, who served in the U. S. Army during the Korean War, and a son-in-law, Mark, who worked as an attorney for the Minnesota Department of Justice.
In 2012, he was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives for a second term, and was re-elected to the Senate for a third term in 2012. He retired from the Senate in 1996 and was appointed United States Ambassador to Japan in 1993; he retired in 1996. He currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Joan Adams, and has a son, Michael Mondale Jr., who lives in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1998, he became the first African-American to serve as a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court, serving on the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota. In 2000, he served on the Minnesota State Supreme Court as a law clerk for Justice Thomas F. Gallagher. In 2003, he joined the Minnesota-based law firm Dorsey & Whitney and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. In 2008, he started a law practice in Minneapolis. In 2010, he founded the law firm Mondale & Associates, which has offices in Minneapolis, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, and in Washington, D.C. The firm is now based in Minneapolis and has offices around the world. In 2011, he moved to Minneapolis to be closer to his wife Joan Adams and their son Michael. In 2013, he opened a law firm in Minneapolis called Mondale and Adams, LLP. In 2014, he co-founded the firm, which is based in the Minneapolis suburb of Minneapolis and also serves as the executive director of the Minneapolis Institute of Technology.
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