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Joan Mondale (Joan Adams) was born on 8 August, 1930 in Eugene, Oregon, U.S., is a Second Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981. Discover Joan Mondale's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

Popular As Joan Adams
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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 8 August, 1930
Birthday 8 August
Birthplace Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
Date of death 3 February, 2014
Died Place Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Walter Mondale (m. 1955)

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1930

Joan Mondale (née Adams; August 8, 1930 – February 3, 2014) 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.

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 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.

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.

1952

In 1952, she graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul, where her father served as chaplain, with a bachelor's degree in history.

Following graduation from college, she worked at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

1955

On December 27, 1955, Joan married Minneapolis lawyer Walter "Fritz" Mondale, whom she had met on a blind date.

The couple had three children:

1964

In 1964, Walter Mondale replaced Hubert Humphrey as a U.S. Senator, serving until 1976, when Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter selected him as his running-mate in his successful bid for the Presidency.

An accomplished potter, she studied art at college, and then worked in galleries, before moving to Washington as a Senator's wife in 1964, and led guided tours at the National Gallery of Art.

1972

In 1972, she wrote a book Politics in Art, examining how political commentary is reflected in artworks.

Later she regularly gave tours as a guide for friend Ellen Proxmire (the then wife of Wisconsin Democratic Senator William Proxmire)'s company whirl-around.

Later, as Second Lady, she turned the Vice Presidential Mansion into a showcase of American art, with works by artists including Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Hopper, Louise Nevelson, and Ansel Adams.

At this time, she also served as chairperson of the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.

As the U.S. Ambassador's wife in Japan, she enthusiastically promoted inter-cultural understanding through art, redecorating the Embassy with American paintings and organising tours with a bi-lingual guide.

She studied Japanese art, and impressed the Mayor of Kyoto by presenting him with a ceramic bowl she had made herself in the traditional Mashiko style.

1977

Joan Mondale then became Second Lady, succeeding Happy Rockefeller, during her husband's term as vice president from 1977 to 1981.

She and her husband also became the first Second Lady and vice president to live at Number One Observatory Circle.

She was succeeded as Second Lady by Barbara Bush.

Joan Mondale was a supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment and often lent her support publicly to the cause.

1984

Out of office during Ronald Reagan's first term as president, Walter Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984.

As a prospective First Lady, Joan Mondale told Maureen Dowd of The New York Times that she would not talk about recipes or clothes during the campaign, but when her husband's political opponents took issue with this, costing him votes, she published The Mondale Family Cookbook, with recipes including Fettucine à la Pimiento Mondale, and declared that she was a "traditional wife and mother and supporter".

1993

Walter Mondale lost the election, and the Mondales returned to Minnesota, where they lived until his term as U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1993 to 1996, after which he resumed his Minneapolis-based law practice.

Joan Mondale was a lifelong practitioner, patron, and advocate of the arts, and her nickname 'Joan of Art' was a sincere tribute.

1998

She was the author of Letters From Japan, a collection of essays about life overseas published in 1998.

Back in Minnesota, Mondale continued to make her own pottery and promote the arts.

She served on the boards of the Minnesota Orchestra, Walker Art Center, Macalester College and the National Portrait Gallery.

2004

In 2004, the Textile Center in Minneapolis endowed an exhibition space in her honor, the Joan Mondale Gallery.

2005

She also served as a member of the Postmaster General's Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee from 2005 to 2010.

2014

On February 2, 2014, Mondale's family announced that she had entered hospice care due to Alzheimer's disease.

She died at a care facility in Minneapolis the following day, at age 83.

Her remains were cremated.