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'''Walter Mondale''' '''(1928–present)''' was the [[Senator]] from [[Minnesota]] from 1966 to 1976, and served as Vice-President under [[Jimmy Carter]] from 1977 to 1981.<ref>''Fandex'', Workman Publishing, 2002.</ref> He was the [[Democratic Party]] nominee for President in 1984. He was defeated by [[Ronald Reagan]], and only managed to carry his home state of Minnesota and the [[District of Columbia]]. He is the only person in history to have lost a statewide election as the nominee of a major party in all fifty states, having lost the 2002 senatorial election in Minnesota and the 1984 presidential election in the other forty-nine. [[Image:Mondale84.jpg|thumb|325px]]
'''Walter Mondale''' '''(1928–present)''' was the [[Senator]] from [[Minnesota]] from 1966 to 1976, and served as [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] under [[Jimmy Carter]] from 1977 to 1981.<ref>''Fandex'', Workman Publishing, 2002.</ref> He was the [[Democratic Party]] nominee for President in 1984. An avowed [[liberal]], Mondale was defeated by [[Ronald Reagan]] and managed to carry only his home state and the [[District of Columbia]]. He is the only person in history to have lost a statewide election as the nominee of a major party in all fifty states, having lost the 2002 senatorial election in Minnesota and the 1984 presidential election in the other forty-nine. [[Image:Mondale84.jpg|thumb|325px]]
Author [[Tim LaHaye]], in ''[[The Battle for the Mind, A Subtle Warfare]]'' recounts Mondale's [[Secular humanism|humanist]] background. Mondale was a contributor to ''The Humanist'' magazine and attended the 5th Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical Union held in August 1970 at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. At that conference, then Senator Mondale said: "Although I have never formally joined a humanist society, I think I am a member by inheritance. My preacher father was a humanist ... and I grew up on a very rich diet of humanism from him. All of our family has been deeply influenced by this tradition including my brother Lester, a Unitarian minister ..." Indeed Robert Lester Mondale (1904-2003), Walter Mondale's older half-brother, was the only person to sign each of the three ''Humanist Manifesto''s in 1933, 1973, and 2003.ref>Tim LaHaye, ''[[The Battle for the Mind, A Subtle Warfare]],'' (Old Tappan, [[New Jersey]]: Power Books (Fleming H. Revell Company), 1980), p. 139.</ref>
==1984 Defeat==
==1984 Defeat==
==2002 Campaign==
==2002 Campaign==
In 2002 Mondale ran for the Senate again, replacing [[Senator]] [[Paul Wellstone]] on the ballot when Wellstone died in a plane crash 11 days before the election. Mondale lost to Republican [[Norm Coleman]].
In 2002 Mondale ran for the Senate again as the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota to succeed the late [[Paul Wellstone]], who died in a plane crash eleven days before the election. Mondale lost to Republican [[Norm Coleman]], who in turn was narrowly unseated in 2008 by the liberal comedian [[Al Franken]].
== References ==
== References ==
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