Walter Mondale, the former vice president whose accomplished career was marred by one of the worst electoral shellackings in American history, has died.
Mondale, who was also the first presidential candidate to select a woman, Geraldine Ferraro, to be his running mate, was 93. The Associated Press reported his death, citing his family.
The man known as "Fritz" had his seemingly effortless rise in politics halted twice by Ronald Reagan, once in 1980 when the Reagan-Bush ticket stomped Jimmy Carter's bid for reelection and then, even more forcefully, in 1984, when Reagan obliterated Mondale's bid for the presidency. Those defeats put an end to the momentum of an accomplished career that included 12 years in the Senate and four as Carter's uncommonly active vice president.
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