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Walter Frederick Mondale - 42nd Vice President
Party: Democrat
Term: Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981
Age at Inauguration: 49
Life Span: Jan 5, 1928
President:Jimmy Carter

  • Mondale was the first vice president to live in the new VP home at the Naval Observatory
  • In the previous administration Nelson Rockefeller refused to live there, preferring his own private residence
  • Mondale managed the senatorial campaign of Hubert Humphrey in 1948
  • When Humphrey ran for vice president in 1968 he was appointed to fill his vacated senate seat
  • His net worth disclosure as a candidate revealed a net worth of just $77,000, to which he quipped, "I want to be vice president because I need the money"
  • He lost reelection with Jimmy Carter in 1980, and ran as the presidential nominee in 1984
  • During the campaign he coined the phrase, "Where's the beef?"