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'''Walter Frederick Mondale''' (1928–present) is a former [[United States Senate|U.S. senator]] from [[Minnesota]] who served as [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]] under [[U.S. President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] from 1977 to 1981.<ref>''Fandex'', Workman Publishing, 2002.</ref>  In 1984, as the former vice president, Mondale was the [[Democratic Party]] nominee for President. An avowed [[liberal]], Mondale was defeated by the incumbent [[Ronald Reagan]]. Mondale carried 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]]  
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'''Walter Frederick Mondale''' (born January 5, 1928) is a former [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] from [[Minnesota]] who served as [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]] under [[U.S. President]] [[Jimmy Carter]] from 1977 to 1981.<ref>''Fandex'', Workman Publishing, 2002.</ref>  In 1984, as the former vice president, Mondale was the [[Democratic Party]] nominee for President. An avowed [[liberal]], Mondale was defeated by the incumbent [[Ronald Reagan]]. Mondale carried 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]]  
    
==Secular humanist==
 
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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]].
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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 popular [[liberal]] comedian [[Al Franken]].
    
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