MONDALE, Walter Frederick, a
Senator from Minnesota and Vice President of the United States; born in Ceylon,
Martin County, Minn., January 5, 1928; attended the Heron Lake and Elmore,
Minn., public schools; attended Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn.; graduated
from the University of Minnesota in 1951; served in the United States Army
1951-1953; graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School 1956; was
admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1956 and commenced practice in Minneapolis;
appointed and elected attorney general of Minnesota in 1960 and reelected in
1962; member of the President’s Consumer Advisory Council 1960-1964; appointed
as a Democrat to the United States Senate, December 30, 1964, to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Hubert H. Humphrey for the term ending
January 3, 1967; elected in 1966 for the term commencing January 3, 1967;
reelected in 1972 and served from December 30, 1964, until his resignation
December 30, 1976; chairman, Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity
(Ninety-first and Ninety-second Congresses); elected Vice President of the
United States on the Democratic ticket with President Jimmy Carter on November
2, 1976; inaugurated January 20, 1977, and served until January 3, 1981;
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for reelection; unsuccessful Democratic
nominee for President of the United States in 1984; is a resident of Washington,
D.C.; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan, 1993-1996.
-- Biographical Data courtesy of the Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress.
