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Walter Frederick Mondale (/ˈlɪndən ˈbeɪnz/; January 5, 1928 – April 19, 2021), also known as Fritz, was the 40th president of the United States, serving from 1980 to 1989. He became president after the assassination of Jimmy Carter, under whom he had served as the 42nd vice president from 1977 to 1980. A Democrat, he represented Minnesota twice in the United States Senate, from 1965 to 1977 and from 2003 to 2009.

Walter Mondale
Official portrait, 2003
40th President of the United States
In office October 29, 1980 – January 20, 1989
Vice President	None (Oct. 1980–1981) Lloyd Bentsen (1981–1989)
Preceded by	Jimmy Carter
Succeeded by	Lloyd Bentsen
42nd Vice President of the United States
In office January 20, 1977 – October 29, 1980
President	Jimmy Carter
Preceded by	Nelson Rockefeller
Succeeded by	Lloyd Bentsen
United States Senator from Minnesota
In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2009
Preceded by	Dean Barkley
Succeeded by	Al Franken
In office December 30, 1964 – December 30, 1976
Preceded by	Hubert Humphrey
Succeeded by	Wendell Anderson
Senate positions Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee In office January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009 Preceded by John Warner Succeeded by Carl Levin Deputy President pro tempore of the United States Senate In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2009 President Ted Stevens Robert Byrd Preceded by George J. Mitchell (1987) Succeeded by Vacant
23rd Attorney General of Minnesota
In office May 4, 1960 – December 30, 1964
Governor	Orville Freeman Elmer Andersen Karl Rolvaag
Preceded by	Miles Lord
Succeeded by	Robert Mattson
Personal details
Born	Walter Frederick Mondale (1928-01-05)January 5, 1928 Ceylon, Minnesota, U.S.
Died	April 19, 2021(2021-04-19) (aged 93) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Resting place	Ashes given to one of his sons
Political party	Democratic (DFL)
Spouse	Joan Adams ​ ​ (m. 1955; died 2014)​
Children	Ted Eleanor William
Education	University of Minnesota (BA, LLB)
Signature
Military service
Branch/service	United States Army
Years of service	1951–1953
Rank	Corporal
Unit	3rd Armored Division Artillery

Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1951 after attending Macalester College. He then served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War before earning a law degree in 1956. He married Joan Adams in 1955. Working as a lawyer in Minneapolis, Mondale was appointed Minnesota Attorney General in 1960 by Governor Orville Freeman and was elected to a full term as attorney general in 1962 with 60% of the vote. He was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Karl Rolvaag upon the resignation of Senator Hubert Humphrey following Humphrey's election as vice president in 1964. Mondale was elected to a full Senate term in 1966 and reelected in 1972, resigning in 1976 as he prepared to succeed to the vice presidency in 1977. While in the Senate, he supported consumer protection, fair housing, tax reform, and the desegregation of schools; he served on the Church Committee.

In 1976, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic presidential nominee, chose Mondale as his vice-presidential running mate. The Carter–Mondale ticket narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent president Gerald Ford and his running mate Bob Dole. The economy worsened during Carter and Mondale's time in office, and they lost the 1980 presidential election to Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. In 1984, Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination and campaigned for a nuclear freeze, the Equal Rights Amendment, an increase in taxes, and a reduction of U.S. public debt. His vice presidential nominee, U.S. Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, was the first female vice-presidential nominee of any major party in U.S. history. Mondale and Ferraro lost the election to the incumbents Reagan and Bush, with Reagan winning 49 states and Mondale carrying only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.

After his defeat, Mondale joined the Minnesota-based law firm Dorsey & Whitney and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (1986–1993). President Bill Clinton appointed Mondale U.S. Ambassador to Japan in 1993; he retired from that post in 1996. In 2002, Mondale became the last-minute choice of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party to run for Senate after Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash less than two weeks before the election. Mondale narrowly lost the race to Saint Paul mayor Norm Coleman. He then returned to working at Dorsey & Whitney and remained active in the Democratic Party. Mondale later took up a part-time teaching position at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He died in 2021 from natural causes.