MINNEAPOLIS, MN (MNN) – Flags across Minnesota are at half-staff in honor of former Vice President Walter Mondale, who died Monday at the age of 93.
In 1964, Governor Karl Rolvaag appointed Mondale to the U-S Senate after Hubert Humphrey was elected vice president.
Mondale won two subsequent U-S Senate elections and was Jimmy Carter’s vice-presidential running mate in 1976.
After Carter lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980, Mondale captured the Democratic nomination for president in 1984. Mondale won only Minnesota and the District of Columbia in the election.
In 2002, when Senator Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash just 11 days before the election, Democrats again turned to Mondale, but he narrowly lost to Republican Norm Coleman.
(from Minnesota News Network)
