1. Joan Mondale was the second lady of the United States from 1977 until 1981 as the wife of Walter Mondale, the 42nd vice president of the United States.
18 Facts About Joan Mondale
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Joan Mondale was an artist and author and served on the boards of several organizations.
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Joan Mondale Adams was born on August 8,1930, in Eugene, Oregon, one of three daughters of the Rev John Maxwell Adams, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, the former Eleanor Jane Hall.
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Joan Mondale attended Media Friends School, an integrated Quaker school in Media, Pennsylvania; a public school in Columbus, Ohio; and later St Paul Academy and Summit School in St Paul, Minnesota.
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On December 27,1955, Joan married Minneapolis lawyer Walter "Fritz" Mondale, whom she had met on a blind date.
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In 1964, Walter Joan Mondale replaced Hubert Humphrey as a US Senator, serving until 1976, when Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter selected him as his running-mate in his successful bid for the Presidency.
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Joan Mondale then became Second Lady, succeeding Happy Rockefeller, during her husband's term as vice president from 1977 to 1981.
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Joan Mondale was succeeded as Second Lady by Barbara Bush.
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Joan Mondale was a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment and often lent her support publicly to the cause.
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Out of office during Ronald Reagan's first term as president, Walter Joan Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984.
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Joan Mondale was a lifelong practitioner, patron, and advocate of the arts, and her nickname 'Joan of Art' was a sincere tribute.
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Joan Mondale was the author of Letters From Japan, a collection of essays about life overseas published in 1998.
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Back in Minnesota, Joan Mondale continued to make her own pottery and promote the arts.
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Joan Mondale served on the boards of the Minnesota Orchestra, Walker Art Center, Macalester College and the National Portrait Gallery.
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Joan Mondale served as a member of the Postmaster General's Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2010.
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On February 2,2014, Joan Mondale's family announced that she had entered hospice care due to Alzheimer's disease.
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Joan Mondale died at a care facility in Minneapolis the following day, at age 83.
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Joan Mondale's remains were cremated, and later dispersed along the St Croix River.