Joan Adams Mondale (born August 8, 1930) is the wife of Walter Mondale, the 42nd Vice President of the United States and later U.S. ambassador to Japan. She is an advocate for the arts.
Joan Adams was born in Eugene, Oregon, and is one of three daughters of the Rev. John Maxwell Adams, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, the former Eleanor Jane Hall. She attended an integrated Quaker school in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, a public school in Colu...
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Joan Adams Mondale (born August 8, 1930) is the wife of Walter Mondale, the 42nd Vice President of the United States and later U.S. ambassador to Japan. She is an advocate for the arts.
Joan Adams was born in Eugene, Oregon, and is one of three daughters of the Rev. John Maxwell Adams, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, the former Eleanor Jane Hall. She attended an integrated Quaker school in Wallingford, 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, where her father served as chaplain. Following graduation from college, she worked at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, before returning to Minnesota, where she worked at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
She married Walter Mondale on December 27, 1955, several months after a blind date. The couple has three children, a daughter, Eleanor, and two sons, Theodore and William.
During her husband's term as Vice President...
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