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Walter Frederick Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States, serving under President Jimmy Carter (1977–81), and as a United States Senator for Minnesota (1964–76). He was the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in the United States presidential election of 1984. Mondale campaigned for a nuclear freeze, the Equal Rights Amendment and a reduction of US public debt. In the election, Mondale was defeated in a landslide by President Reagan, gaining electoral votes narrowly from only his home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia. Geraldine Anne Ferraro (born August 26, 1935) is an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician and a former member of the United States House of Representatives. She was the first female Vice Presidential candidate representing a major American political party. Ferraro ran campaigns for a seat in the United States Senate from New York in 1992 and 1998, both times emerging as the front-runner for her party's nomination but losing in primary elections both times. She served as a United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights from 1993 until 1996 in the presidential administration of Bill Clinton. She has also continued her career as a journalist, author, and businesswoman, and served in the 2008 presidential campaign of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Repro pub domain for TheAttic 2010.