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85-562: Hickel served as the second governor of Alaska, defeating incumbent and first governor William A. Egan in 1966. He served as governor until 1969, ending with his resignation upon his appointment to the position of United States Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President Richard Nixon . Hickel later served a full term as governor from 1990 to 1994 under the banner of the Alaskan Independence Party . Hickel

170-546: A Methodist minister, and Claribel Hope (née Cowan), a part-time music teacher. Walter's half-brother Lester Mondale became a Unitarian minister. Mondale also has two brothers, Clarence, known as Pete (1926–2014), and William, known as Mort. His paternal grandparents were Norwegian immigrants, with some distant German ancestry. Mondale's paternal grandfather Frederik Mundal had emigrated from Norway with his family in 1856, eventually settling in southern Minnesota in 1864. The surname Mondale derives from that of Mundal,

255-584: A 2001 interview: "I think that by forcing a public confrontation about these heretofore secret and deep concerns about the safety and the management of the program, it forced NASA to restructure and reorganize the program in a way that was much safer." When Jimmy Carter won the Democratic nomination for president in 1976 , he chose Mondale as his running mate. Mondale campaigned for the ticket in various states. While campaigning in Toledo, Ohio he said that

340-756: A 400-mile road from Livengood to Prudhoe Bay that would later be known as the Hickel Highway. The same year, Hickel appointed Ted Stevens to the United States Senate to replace the recently deceased Bob Bartlett . Like his predecessor Egan, Hickel sought to improve relations with Alaskan Natives in seeking resolutions on Native land claims. A group of Native Americans from Interior Alaska , including Morris Thompson and Don and Jules Wright , played major roles in his 1966 campaign and subsequent governorship. Richard Nixon's election as U.S. President in late 1968 led to an offer to Hickel from

425-516: A Mexican American, as finalists. Others preferred Senator Lloyd Bentsen because he would appeal to the Deep South, or even nomination rival Gary Hart . Ferraro, as a Catholic, was criticized by some Catholic Church leaders for being pro-choice . Much more controversy erupted over her changing positions about the release of her husband's tax returns, and her own ethics record in the House. Ferraro

510-522: A blind date. He then practiced law in Minneapolis for four years before entering politics. Mondale became involved in national politics in the 1940s. At age 20, he was visible in Minnesota politics by helping organize Hubert Humphrey's successful Senate campaign in 1948 . Humphrey's campaign assigned Mondale to cover the staunchly Republican 2nd district . Mondale, who had grown up in the region,

595-546: A controlled release could be made to Congress. Immediately after the hearing, Webb saw the Phillips report for the first time. The controversy spread to both houses of Congress and grew (through the efforts of Mondale's fellow committee member, Republican Margaret Chase Smith to include the second-guessing of NASA's original selection in 1961 of North American as the prime Apollo spacecraft contractor, which Webb became forced to defend). The House NASA oversight committee, which

680-714: A corrupt and anti-environmentalist record as governor. Opposition to his nomination was led by influential columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson . Newspapers opposing his nomination included the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times . In the Senate, his confirmation was opposed by, among others, Democratic senators Walter Mondale and George McGovern . Sierra Club director David Brower testified in opposition to Hickel. The Senate nevertheless confirmed his nomination on 23 January 1969. Upon becoming

765-577: A damn what she does". In 2008, he called for the resignation of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, whom he had appointed to the Senate in 1968. His statement was made in light of the August 2008 federal indictment of Stevens related to the alleged receipt of improper gifts from Bill Allen , CEO of the VECO Corporation , an Alaskan construction company heavily involved in the Alaskan oil industry. Stevens

850-465: A fellow state senator from Nenana . Coghill had held elected office continuously since 1957 with the exception of relinquishing the mayorship of Nenana for approximately two years, when the 1967 flood forced him to move from the city limits temporarily. Coghill had also briefly worked as a special assistant to Hickel during his first governorship. Sturgulewski, who won the Republican nomination for

935-526: A fire on January 27 while testing the Apollo 204 (later renumbered Apollo 1 ) spacecraft. NASA Administrator James E. Webb secured President Lyndon Johnson's approval for NASA to internally investigate the cause of the accident according to its established procedures, subject to Congressional oversight. NASA's procedure called for Deputy Administrator (and de facto general manager) Robert C. Seamans to appoint and oversee an investigative panel. In February,

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1020-470: A full term as attorney general in 1962 with 60% of the vote. He was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Karl Rolvaag upon the resignation of Senator Hubert Humphrey following Humphrey's election as vice president in 1964. Mondale was elected to a full Senate term in 1966 and reelected in 1972, resigning in 1976 as he prepared to succeed to the vice presidency in 1977. While in the Senate, he supported consumer protection , fair housing , tax reform and

1105-520: A liberal position on civil rights, which proved acceptable in Minnesota, a state with "a minuscule black population". Mondale was a chief sponsor of the federal Fair Housing Act , which prohibits discrimination in housing and created the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development 's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity as the primary enforcer of the law. During Lyndon Johnson 's presidency, Mondale supported

1190-642: A plane crash less than two weeks before the election. Mondale narrowly lost the race to Saint Paul mayor Norm Coleman . He then returned to working at Dorsey & Whitney and remained active in the Democratic Party. Mondale later took up a part-time teaching position at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs . Walter Frederick Mondale was born on January 5, 1928, in Ceylon, Minnesota , to Theodore Sigvaard Mondale,

1275-515: A reporter leaked to Mondale the existence of an internal NASA report issued in 1965 by Apollo program director Samuel C. Phillips , detailing management, cost, delivery, and quality problems of the Apollo prime contractor North American Aviation . In the February 27 hearing, Mondale asked Webb if he knew of such a report. Webb had not yet seen the December 1965 written report, so he responded in

1360-434: A row before being allowed to run again. Should the office of governor become vacant, the lieutenant governor assumes the office of governor. The original constitution of 1956 created the office of secretary of state, which was functionally identical to a lieutenant governor, and was renamed to "lieutenant governor" in 1970. Walter Mondale Walter Frederick " Fritz " Mondale (January 5, 1928 – April 19, 2021)

1445-599: A valley and town in the Fjærland region of Norway. His mother was born in Iowa , the daughter of an immigrant father, Robert Cowan, who was born in Seaforth, Ontario ; she was of Scottish and English descent. In his youth, Mondale's family thought the names "Walter" and "Frederick" were too stilted for a boy, so they called him " Fritz ", a common German and Scandinavian diminutive form of Friedrich or Frederick. Due to

1530-503: Is also noted for a rare third party win in American politics, having been elected to a term in 1990 representing the Alaskan Independence Party . The longest-serving governor of the state was Egan, who was elected three times and served nearly 12 years. The longest-serving territorial governor was Ernest Gruening , who served over 13 years. The current governor is Republican Mike Dunleavy , who took office on December 3, 2018. Alaska

1615-695: The Anchorage Daily News was unable to find any conclusive information to support this claim. On May 17, 1884, the Department of Alaska was redesignated the District of Alaska , an incorporated but unorganized territory with a civil government. The governor was appointed by the president of the United States . The District of Alaska was organized into Alaska Territory on August 24, 1912. Governors continued to be appointed by

1700-563: The 1964 Democratic National Convention , Mondale played a major role in the proposed but ultimately unsuccessful compromise by which the national Democratic Party offered the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party two at-large seats. Mondale also served as a member of the President's Consumer Advisory Council from 1960 to 1964. On December 30, 1964, Minnesota Governor Karl Rolvaag appointed Mondale to

1785-573: The Alaska's state forces . Twelve people have served as governor of the State of Alaska over 14 distinct terms, though Alaska had over 30 civilian and military governors during its long history as a United States territory . Only two governors, William A. Egan and Bill Walker , were born in Alaska. Two people, Egan and Wally Hickel , have been elected to multiple non-consecutive terms as governor. Hickel

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1870-861: The Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee . He also served as chairman of the Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity and the Intelligence Committee 's Domestic Task Force. He additionally served as chairman of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee's subcommittee on Children and Youth and the Senate subcommittee on social security financing. In 1975, Mondale served on the Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church , that investigated alleged abuses by

1955-810: The Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation . Documents declassified in 2017 show that the National Security Agency had created a file on Mondale as part of its monitoring of prominent U.S. citizens whose names appeared in Signals intelligence . In 1967, Mondale served on the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, then chaired by Clinton P. Anderson , when astronauts Gus Grissom , Ed White , and Roger Chaffee were killed in

2040-707: The Department of War and administered by Army officers until 1877, when the Army was withdrawn from Alaska. The Department of the Treasury then took control, with the Collector of Customs as the highest ranking federal official in the territory. In 1879, the Navy was given jurisdiction over the department. Some believe the first American administrator of Alaska was Polish immigrant Włodzimierz Krzyżanowski . However,

2125-703: The District of Columbia . After his defeat, Mondale joined the Minnesota-based law firm Dorsey & Whitney and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (1986–1993). President Bill Clinton appointed Mondale U.S. Ambassador to Japan in 1993; he retired from that post in 1996. In 2002 , Mondale became the last-minute choice of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party to run for Senate after Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone died in

2210-471: The Great Depression , Mondale grew up in poverty. His family moved from Ceylon to Heron Lake in 1934, and to Elmore in 1937. Throughout his youth, Mondale was influenced heavily by his father's religious beliefs, including support for the civil rights movement. In 1948, his father died of a stroke. Mondale attended public schools and then Macalester College for two years before transferring to

2295-597: The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. In 1990, he established the Mondale Policy Forum at the Humphrey Institute. The forum has brought together leading scholars and policymakers for annual conferences on domestic and international issues. Mondale spoke before the U.S. Senate on September 4, 2002, delivering a lecture on his service, with commentary on

2380-448: The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs . During Bill Clinton's presidency, he was United States Ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996, chaired a bipartisan group to study campaign finance reform , and was Clinton's special envoy to Indonesia in 1998. Until his appointment as Ambassador to Japan, Mondale was a Distinguished University Fellow in Law and Public Affairs at

2465-526: The Ohio National Guard , Hickel wrote a letter critical of Nixon's Vietnam War policy and urging him to give more respect to the views of young people critical of the war, writing in part, "I believe this administration finds itself today embracing a philosophy which appears to lack appropriate concern for the attitude of a great mass of Americans – our young people." That dissent garnered worldwide media attention, and on November 25, 1970, Hickel

2550-707: The Vietnam War . After Nixon became president in 1969, Mondale began to oppose the war and participated in legislation to restrict Nixon's ability to prolong it. Mondale supported abortion rights. Mondale rotated on and off numerous committees, including the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee ; the Finance Committee ; the Labor and Public Welfare Committee ; the Budget Committee ; and

2635-528: The desegregation of schools ; he served on the Church Committee . In 1976 , Jimmy Carter, the Democratic presidential nominee, chose Mondale as his vice-presidential running mate. The Carter–Mondale ticket defeated incumbent president Gerald Ford and his running mate Bob Dole . The economy worsened during Carter and Mondale's time in office, and they lost the 1980 election to Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush . In 1984, Mondale won

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2720-648: The 1984 election, and was soon the front-runner. His opposition included Reverend Jesse Jackson and Senator Gary Hart from Colorado. Hart won the New Hampshire primary in March, but Mondale had much of the party leadership behind him. To great effect, Mondale used the Wendy's slogan " Where's the beef? " to describe Hart's policies as lacking depth. Jackson, widely regarded as the first serious African-American candidate for president, held on longer, but Mondale gained

2805-676: The AIP's secessionism , prompting some party faithful to petition for his recall . He rejoined the Republican Party in April 1994, near the end of his term. Hickel wanted to build a water pipeline from Alaska to California in 1991. The paragraph about the Hotel Captain Cook's construction and expansion doesn't have a specific citation, but the information is also widely documented and can be found in many sources. Wally Hickel

2890-477: The Democratic base (especially ethnic blue-collar workers) was gradually moving to the right, and he worked to keep their support. Mondale showed little or no interest in foreign policy until about 1974, when he realized that some foreign policy knowledge was necessary if he had loftier aspirations than the Senate. He developed a centrist position, avoiding alignment with either the party's hawks (such as Henry M. Jackson ) or its doves (such as McGovern). Mondale took

2975-573: The Democratic presidential nomination and campaigned for a nuclear freeze , the Equal Rights Amendment , an increase in taxes, and a reduction of U.S. public debt . His vice presidential nominee, U.S. Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, was the first female vice-presidential nominee of any major party in U.S. history. Mondale and Ferraro lost the election to the incumbents Reagan and Bush, with Reagan winning 49 states and Mondale carrying only his home state of Minnesota and

3060-508: The Intertior Douglas McKay asking him to build up the party and also asked Heintzleman to reconsider his decision to cancel his meeting with them. Hickel was elected as Alaska's second governor in the 1966 state general elections, defeating his Democratic rival and incumbent governor Bill Egan . Hickel's first governorship, the second in the young state's history as well as Alaska's first Republican governorship, oversaw

3145-490: The November 5 election. Mondale replaced Wellstone on the ballot at the urging of Wellstone's relatives. The Senate seat was the one Mondale had held before resigning to become vice president in 1977. During his debate with the Republican nominee, former St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman , Mondale emphasized his experience, while painting Coleman as right-wing partisan in-line with then-president Bush. Mondale unexpectedly lost

3230-581: The President-elect to serve in the United States Cabinet as Interior Secretary. Initially, Hickel declined the cabinet offer. Nixon replied that his decision was final. Hickel would recall years later that he cried afterward and announced that he would be resigning from the governorship to go to Washington. Hickel's nomination was met with what he later wrote was a newspaper "smear" campaign of false and "crazy accusations" that he had

3315-534: The Republican Party's nominees for governor and lieutenant governor), stepped aside, largely alluding to the illness of Lindauer's wife as the reason. Hickel and Coghill prevailed in the general election. Although he had common ground with the Alaskan Independence Party in fighting restrictions on land use imposed by federal environmentalism , Hickel had been one of the most influential historical proponents of Alaska statehood and never endorsed

3400-746: The U.S. Senate on November 4, 1977, allowing the Social Security financing bill to be passed. Carter and Mondale were renominated at the 1980 Democratic National Convention , but soundly lost to the Republican ticket of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. That year, Mondale opened the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York . Carter and Mondale were the longest-living post-presidential team in American history. On May 23, 2006, they had been out of office for 9,254 days (25 years, 4 months and 3 days), surpassing

3485-490: The United States Senate to fill the vacancy created by Hubert Humphrey's resignation; Humphrey had stepped down after being elected vice president of the United States . Mondale was elected to the Senate for the first time in 1966 , defeating Republican candidate Robert A. Forsythe by a margin of 53.9% to 45.2%. In 1972 , Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern offered Mondale an opportunity to be his vice-presidential running mate; he declined. That year, Mondale

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3570-609: The University of Minnesota, from which he graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1951. As Mondale could not afford to attend law school, he enlisted in the United States Army in 1951, shortly after graduating. He served with the 3rd Armored Division Artillery at Fort Knox , Kentucky, during the Korean War , first as an armored reconnaissance vehicle crewman, and later as an education programs specialist and associate editor of

3655-429: The accident, did not lead to the accident, and were not related to the accident". Yet Mondale wrote a minority opinion accusing NASA of "evasiveness,... lack of candor, ... patronizing attitude exhibited toward Congress, ... refusal to respond fully and forthrightly to legitimate congressional inquiries, and ... solicitous concern for corporate sensitivities at a time of national tragedy". Mondale explained his actions in

3740-571: The area could not be redeveloped extensively, he chose a site close to one of the largest landslides in the area as a show of confidence in the city's future. The result was the Hotel Captain Cook , a nine-story luxury hotel that opened in 1965 on Fourth Avenue, adjacent to the historic Wendler Building . Hickel's confidence in the project was not misplaced, as the hotel grew to become a major landmark in Anchorage. A fifteen-story tower

3825-435: The copy sent to North American Aviation president Lee Atwood . Seamans was afraid Mondale might be in possession of a copy (he was not), so he admitted that NASA often reviewed its contractors' performance, with both positive and negative results, but claimed that was nothing extraordinary. Under repeated questioning from Mondale, Webb promised that he would investigate whether the "Phillips Report" existed, and if so, whether

3910-430: The country needed a strong president to stop inflation and added that President Gerald Ford did not have the guts to stand up to big businesses. The ticket was narrowly elected on November 2, 1976, and Mondale was inaugurated as Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1977. He also became the first vice president to live at Number One Observatory Circle . Under Carter, Mondale traveled extensively throughout

3995-526: The discovery of oilfields at Prudhoe Bay in 1968, a factor that would prove politically decisive in later years. Hickel, a moderate Republican and environmentalist, did not push for heavy oil exploitation. Nevertheless, during his first few months in office, his administration approved the sale of oil leases on 37,000 acres of the North Slope despite opposition from Alaskan Natives. In November 1968, Hickel's department of transportation began construction on

4080-521: The election, receiving 1,067,246 votes (47.34%) to Coleman's 1,116,697 (49.53%). Upon conceding defeat, Mondale said, "At the end of what will be my last campaign, I want to say to Minnesota, you always treated me well, you always listened to me." In 2004, Mondale became co-chairman of the Constitution Project 's bipartisan Right to Counsel Committee. He endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton for president in 2008 . On June 3, 2008, following

4165-529: The federal Secretary of the Interior , Hickel proved to be a strong environmentalist, supporting strong legislation that put liabilities on oil companies operating offshore oil rigs as well as demanding environmental safeguards on Alaska's growing oil industry. Hickel's centrist voice inside the Nixon Administration eventually led to confrontations with the President. In 1970 following the shooting of college students at Kent State University by

4250-484: The film, Mondale encourages Franken to run, but cautions him, saying that Coleman's allies and the Republican Party would look for anything they could use against him. Franken ultimately ran and won the 2008 Senate election by 312 votes, with Coleman contesting the election results until June 30, 2009. Mondale and Senator Amy Klobuchar stood with Franken in the United States Senate chamber when Franken

4335-406: The final primary contests, Mondale endorsed Senator Barack Obama , who had clinched the nomination the previous evening, and won the presidency. Following the presidential election of 2004 and the midterm elections of 2006, Mondale is seen in the documentary Al Franken: God Spoke talking with Al Franken about the possibility of the latter running against Coleman for U.S. Senate in 2008. In

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4420-409: The former record established by President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson , both of whom died on July 4, 1826. On September 8, 2012, Carter surpassed Herbert Hoover as the president with the longest retirement from office. On April 23, 2014, Mondale surpassed Richard Nixon as the vice president with the longest retirement from office at 12,146 days (33 years, 3 months and 3 days). At

4505-410: The idea was hatched to run a slate of Hickel and Coghill under the Alaskan Independence Party banner. AIP chairman Joe Vogler was brought from Fairbanks to Anchorage immediately prior to the deadline for political parties to substitute their nominees. John Lindauer and Jerry Ward , who had been chosen in the primary as the AIP ticket (and would, eight years later, win another blanket primary as

4590-415: The incumbent was popular, and Mondale's campaign was widely considered ineffective. Mondale was also perceived as supporting the poor at the expense of the middle class. In the first televised debate he performed unexpectedly well, which led many to question Reagan's age and capacity to endure the grueling demands of the presidency (Reagan was the oldest person to serve as president—73 at the time—while Mondale

4675-540: The late 1940s and into the 1950s. In 1958, the Alaska Statehood Act was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower . By the 1950s, he was the finance chairman of the Republican Party and, in 1952, received the backing of businessmen in Anchorage for the territorial governorship, but Benjamin Heintzleman was appointed instead. In 1953, Hickel along with the national committeewoman for Alaska,

4760-650: The nation and the world advocating the administration's foreign policy. His travels also included a visit to the USS ; Midway  (CV-41) , which was on station at the time in the Indian Ocean during the Iran hostage crisis . Mondale was the first vice president to have an office in the White House and established the concept of an "activist Vice President". He had weekly lunches with the president and expanded

4845-478: The negative. Seamans had passed along to Webb neither the written report nor the briefing presentation made to him in January 1966 by Phillips and Phillips's boss, Manned Space Flight Administrator George Mueller . Both Seamans and Mueller had also been called to testify at this session. Mueller denied the report's existence, though he must have been aware of it, as he had appended his own strongly worded letter to

4930-619: The nomination with the majority of delegates. At the Democratic National Convention , Mondale chose U.S. Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York as his running mate, making her the first woman nominated for that position by a major party. Aides later said that Mondale was determined to make a historic choice with his vice presidential candidate, having considered San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein (female and Jewish); Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley , an African American; and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros ,

5015-415: The president of the United States. Alaska was admitted to the Union on January 3, 1959. The state constitution provides for the election of a governor and lieutenant governor every four years on the same ticket , with their terms commencing on the first Monday in the December following the election. Governors are allowed to succeed themselves once, having to wait four years after their second term in

5100-423: The resignation of Miles Lord . At the time he was appointed, Mondale was 32 years old and had been practicing law for four years. He was elected to the post in his own right in 1962. During his tenure as Minnesota Attorney General, the case Gideon v. Wainwright (which ultimately established the right of defendants in state courts to have a lawyer) was being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. When those opposed to

5185-416: The right to counsel organized a friend of the court brief representing several state attorneys general for that position, Mondale organized a countering friend of the court brief from many more state attorneys general, arguing that defendants must be allowed a lawyer. He also continued the investigation of former Minneapolis mayor Marvin L. Kline and the mismanagement of the Sister Kenny Foundation . At

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5270-460: The second consecutive time against mostly conservative opposition, was criticized by many Republicans for her positions on issues such as abortion and capital punishment . Following a contentious meeting between Sturgulewski and prominent conservative Republicans held in the home of David Cuddy , Coghill felt that it was impossible to continue to run on the ticket with Sturgulewski. After Coghill met first with Hickel and then with Edgar Paul Boyko ,

5355-447: The time of his death, Mondale was the oldest living U.S. vice president and Carter was (and remains) the oldest living U.S. president . After losing the 1980 election, Mondale returned briefly to the practice of law at Winston and Strawn , a large Chicago-based law firm, but he intended to return to politics before long. Mondale ran for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in the Democratic presidential primaries preceding

5440-407: The transformation of the office of the vice president during the Carter administration, the Senate cloture rule for ending debate, and his view of the future of the Senate. The lecture was a part of a continuing Senate "Leaders Lecture Series" that ran from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone from Minnesota, who was running for reelection, died in a plane crash 11 days before

5525-447: The unit's newsletter, Tanker's Dust . He attained the rank of corporal and was discharged in 1953. Mondale enrolled at the University of Minnesota Law School , aided by the G.I. Bill , and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Laws in 1956. In law school, he served on the Minnesota Law Review and as a law clerk for Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Thomas F. Gallagher . In 1955, Mondale married Joan Adams, whom he met on

5610-444: The vice chairman for the territorial party and his wife went to the Republican Party's western conference in San Francisco and was later elected as head of the Anchorage Republican Club. In December 1953, he and eighteen other prominent Republicans from Anchorage sent a letter to Governor Heintzleman requesting the resignation of Robert DeArmond and that he be replaced with somebody from Anchorage, and they later telegrammed Secretary of

5695-456: The vice president's role from figurehead to presidential advisor, full-time participant, and troubleshooter for the administration. Subsequent vice presidents have followed this model. In 1979, Twin Cities Public Television produced a documentary about his trip to Norway, titled Walter Mondale: There's a Fjord in Your Past , a play on the well-known advertising slogan "There's a Ford in Your Future". Mondale cast one tie-breaking vote in

5780-414: Was purchased by the United States from the Russian Empire in 1867, with formal transfer occurring on October 18, 1867, which is now celebrated as Alaska Day . Before then, it was known as Russian America or Russian Alaska, controlled by the governors and general managers of the Russian-American Company . The vast region was initially designated the Department of Alaska , under the jurisdiction of

5865-407: Was re-elected to the Senate with over 57% of the vote, even as Republican President Richard Nixon carried Minnesota. He served in the 88th , 89th , 90th , 91st , 92nd , 93rd , and 94th congresses . Mondale worked hard to build up the center of the party on economic and social issues. Unlike his father, a fervent liberal, he was not a crusader for the New Deal . Instead, he realized that

5950-432: Was 56). In the next debate on October 21, 1984, Reagan deflected the issue by quipping, "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." Mondale was defeated in a landslide, receiving 37,577,352 votes (40.6% of the popular vote), and winning only the District of Columbia and his home state of Minnesota (even there his margin of victory

6035-450: Was a professor with expertise in the study of wildlife in the marshes . A blanket primary held on August 28, 1990, resulted in Arliss Sturgulewski , a member of the Alaska Senate from Anchorage since 1979, winning the Republican nomination for governor of Alaska . Winning the Democratic nomination was Tony Knowles , the immediate past mayor of Anchorage . The Republicans chose as their nominee for lieutenant governor Jack Coghill ,

6120-528: Was a prominent real estate developer and successful businessman, with a focus on hotels and shopping centers. As chairman of the Hickel Investment Company, he oversaw the construction and operation of numerous properties, including those built to house Safeway 's initial stores in Alaska. In 1964, Hickel decided to build a high-rise luxury hotel in downtown Anchorage following the devastating 1964 Alaska earthquake . Despite skepticism that

6205-400: Was able to win the district for Humphrey by a comfortable margin. After working with Humphrey, Mondale went on to work on several campaigns for Orville Freeman. Mondale worked on Freeman's unsuccessful 1952 campaign for the governorship as well as his successful campaign in 1954 and his 1958 reelection campaign. In 1960, Freeman appointed Mondale Minnesota Attorney General following

6290-670: Was added in 1972, followed by an eighteen-story tower in 1978. Today, the Hotel Captain Cook covers almost an entire city block and includes a connected parking garage covering another half-block. Overall, Hickel's business career was marked by a commitment to development that balanced economic growth with environmental responsibility. His success as a businessman provided him with the resources and platform to pursue public service and activism, where he continued to advocate for sustainable development and environmental protection. In 2006 he supported Sarah Palin in her bid to become governor of Alaska; however, in 2009, he stated that he didn't "give

6375-474: Was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 42nd vice president of the United States from 1977 to 1981 under President Jimmy Carter . He previously served as a U.S. senator from Minnesota from 1964 to 1976, he was the Democratic Party 's nominee in the 1984 presidential election , but lost to incumbent Ronald Reagan in an Electoral College and popular vote landslide . Mondale

6460-520: Was born in Ceylon, Minnesota , and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1951 after attending Macalester College . He then served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War before earning a law degree in 1956. He married Joan Adams in 1955. Working as a lawyer in Minneapolis , Mondale was appointed Minnesota Attorney General in 1960 by Governor Orville Freeman and was elected to

6545-551: Was born in 1919 in Ellinwood, Kansas , the son of Emma Pauline (Zecha) and Robert Anton Hickel. He grew up on his parents' Dust Bowl tenant farm during the Great Depression near Claflin, Kansas . In October 1940 he moved to Alaska and traveled to it aboard the S.S. Yukon with 95 other passengers and went into the local real estate industry. Seven years later in 1947 he had founded a successful construction company. Hickel joined Democrats in calling for Alaskan statehood during

6630-487: Was buried in Anchorage Memorial Park , standing up, facing east towards Washington, D.C. List of Governors of Alaska The governor of Alaska ( Iñupiaq :  Alaaskam kavanaa ) is the head of government of Alaska . The governor is the chief executive of the state and is the holder of the highest office in the executive branch of the government as well as being the commander in chief of

6715-436: Was conducting its own hearings and had picked up on the controversy, was ultimately given a copy of the Phillips report. While the committee, as a whole, believed that NASA should have informed Congress of the Phillips review results in 1966, its final report issued on January 30, 1968, concluded (as had NASA's own accident investigation completed on April 5, 1967) that "the findings of the [Phillips] task force had no effect on

6800-410: Was fewer than 3,800 votes), securing only 13 electoral votes to Reagan's 525. The result was the worst electoral college defeat for any Democratic Party candidate in history, and the worst for any major-party candidate since Alf Landon 's loss to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 . Mondale returned to private law practice with Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis in 1987. From 1986 to 1993, he chaired

6885-594: Was fired over the letter. Days before he lost the office, Hickel had told CBS ' 60 Minutes that he would not quit under pressure and that he would go away only "with an arrow in my heart, not a bullet in my back." Hickel's undersecretaries, such as Leslie Glasgow , who was in charge of Fish, Wildlife, Parks, and Marine Resources, were also dismissed. After less than two years in Washington, Glasgow returned to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge , where he

6970-512: Was found guilty by a Washington D.C. jury of seven felonies in October 2008, narrowly losing his November election to Democrat Mark Begich , eight days later. Stevens' conviction was later set aside by the federal trial judge over the issue of prosecutorial misconduct. The Justice Department under Eric Holder declined to refile charges against the ex-Senator. Hickel died on May 7, 2010, in Anchorage, Alaska. In keeping with his often-stated wish, he

7055-415: Was meant to show that Mondale would be honest with voters, it was instead largely interpreted as a campaign pledge to raise taxes to spend on domestic programs, which was unappealing to many voters. Mondale ran a liberal campaign, supporting a nuclear freeze and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). He spoke against Reagan's economic policies and in support of reducing federal budget deficits . However,

7140-653: Was on the defensive throughout much of the campaign, largely negating her breakthrough as the first woman on a major national ticket. She was also the first Italian American to reach that level in American politics. When Mondale made his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, he said: "By the end of my first term, I will reduce the Reagan budget deficit by two‑thirds. Let's tell the truth. It must be done, it must be done. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." While this

7225-659: Was sworn in on July 7, 2009. Mondale then stood again with Senator Klobuchar when Tina Smith was sworn in on January 3, 2018. He endorsed Klobuchar for president in February 2019. Mondale's wife, Joan Mondale, was a national advocate for the arts and was the Honorary Chairman of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities during the Carter Administration. On February 3, 2014, she died at

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