42nd United States Vice President, U.S. Senator, U.S. Presidential Candidate, U.S. Ambassador. He served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States during the Administration of President Jimmy Carter (1977 to 1981). A member of the Democratic Party, he served Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1964 until 1976. His father was a Methodist minister. He attended the University of Minnesota, receiving his law degree. Following graduation, he served with the United States Army during the Korean War. Mondale acquired experience in the political arena when he managed Hubert Humphrey's successful senatorial campaign in 1948. He assisted with the reelection of Minnesota Governor Orville Freeman in 1958 and from 1960 until 1964, Mondale served as Attorney General of Minnesota. He was appointed to succeeded Humphrey when he was elected Vice President under President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and went on to win two terms. During his tenure in the U.S. Senate, he displayed liberal tendencies, as he supported the Johnson Administration's agenda on Civil Rights, education, health and welfare initiatives. He served as Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Equal Education and was a proponent for busing to accomplish equal racial balancing. He was briefly a candidate for president in 1976, however he withdrew his name when he failed to garner significant support. After Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter secured the Democratic Presidential Nomination, Mondale was added to the ticket. During his tenure as vice president, Mondale took an active role in the administration as he worked closely with President Carter. Among his highlights include a goodwill trip to China. In 1984, he took the Democratic Presidential Nomination and made a historic move when he added Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman vice presidential candidate to his ticket. The 1984 Presidential debates became highly-memorable events between President Ronald Reagan and Mondale with both exchanging notable dialogue. Mondale will be remembered for his borrowing the phrase "Where's the beef?" which was made popular from a Wendy's TV burger commercial at the time and Reagan quipped about Mondale's "youth and inexperience" in regards to their age difference. President Reagan would go on to win reelection in a landslide with Mondale only winning his home state of Minnesota. In 1993, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1993 to 1996). Mondale had an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate in 2002 (when he replaced the incumbent Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone who was killed in a plane crash) as he lost the election to Republican challenger and Saint Paul, Minnesota Mayor Norm Coleman.