{"id":119488,"date":"2021-04-20T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T04:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119488"},"modified":"2021-04-20T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T04:02:35","slug":"former-us-vice-president-walter-mondale-dies-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119488","title":{"rendered":"Former US Vice President Walter Mondale dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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WASHINGTON, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Former US Vice President Walter Mondale, a liberal icon who famously told voters to expect a tax increase should he win the presidency, died Monday, US media reported. He was 93 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No cause was given for Mondale\u2019s death, according to reports citing a statement from his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mondale served as vice president under President Jimmy Carter, from 1977-1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday I mourn the passing of my dear friend Walter Mondale, who I consider the best vice president in our country\u2019s history,\u201d Carter said in a statement, extending his condolences to his former number two\u2019s family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was an invaluable partner and an able servant of the people of Minnesota, the United States, and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to his stint at the White House, Mondale had served as attorney general to his home state of Minnesota from 1960-1964, and then as US senator from that state from 1964-1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Carter left office, Mondale went on to serve as ambassador to Japan between 1993 and 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walter Frederick \u201cFritz\u201d Mondale was born on January 5, 1928 in the tiny town of Ceylon, Minnesota. The son of a Methodist minister and a music teacher, he moved through several small towns in the southern part of the state throughout his childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At age 20, Mondale became a congressional district manager for US politician Hubert Humphrey\u2019s successful Senate campaign. Humphrey would later become Mondale\u2019s political mentor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mondale began his national political career in 1964, when he was appointed to fill Humphrey\u2019s Senate seat, the latter having resigned to become vice president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made his own bid for the White House 1984, facing off against Republican Ronald Reagan. Mondale picked US Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, making him the first major-party presidential nominee to put a woman on the ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his campaign, he infamously told voters to expect a tax increase if he won, which would later go on to define the race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Election Day, Mondale won only Minnesota and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mondale married his wife, Joan Adams Mondale, in 1955. The couple had three children: sons Ted and William, and daughter Eleanor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ted and William followed their father into politics and public service, while Eleanor became a broadcast journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joan died in 2014 after an extended illness, and Eleanor died in 2011 from brain cancer. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Former US Vice President Walter Mondale, a liberal icon who famously told voters to expect a tax increase should he win the presidency, died Monday, US media reported. He was 93 years old. No cause was given for Mondale\u2019s death, according to reports citing a statement from his family. Mondale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}