Joan Mondale
| Joan Mondale | |
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Mondale in 1977
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| Second Lady of the United States | |
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In role January 20, 1977 – January 20, 1981 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Happy Rockefeller |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Bush |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Joan Adams August 8, 1930 Eugene, Oregon, US |
| Died | February 3, 2014 (aged 83) Minneapolis, Minnesota, US |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Walter Mondale (1955–2014; her death) |
| Children |
Ted Eleanor William |
| Alma mater | Macalester College |
| Religion | Presbyterianism |
Joan Mondale (née Adams; August 8, 1930 – February 3, 2014) was Second Lady of the United States from 1977 until 1981 as the wife of Walter Mondale, the 42nd Vice President of the United States. She was an artist and author and served on the boards of several organizations. For her promotion of the arts, she was affectionately dubbed Joan of Art.
Joan Adams was born in Eugene, Oregon, one of three daughters of the Rev. John Maxwell Adams, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, the former Eleanor Jane Hall. She 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. In 1952, she graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, where her father was chaplain, with a bachelor's degree in history. After graduation, she worked at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
On December 27, 1955, Joan married Minneapolis lawyer Walter "Fritz" Mondale, whom she had met on a .
The couple had three children:
In 1964, Walter Mondale replaced Hubert Humphrey as a U.S. Senator, and held the post 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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