Mondale (surname)

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Mondale is an American surname of Norwegian origin. The surname "Mondale" comes from Mundal by Fjærland, in the Sogndal municipality in Norway.[1]

The name is primarily associated with just one American family:

  • Walter Mondale (born 1928), 42nd Vice President of the United States
    • Joan Mondale (1930- 2014), wife of Walter Mondale
    • Eleanor Mondale (1960 - 2011), American radio personality and actress, daughter of Walter Mondale
    • Ted Mondale (born 1957), American politician and entrepreneur, son of Walter Mondale
    • Lester Mondale (1904 - 2003), American minister, brother of Walter Mondale

References

  1. Odd Sverre Lovoll The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today 1998 Page 119 "Both his grandfather and his great-grandfather immigrated from the farm Mundal in Sogn in the late 1850s. ... with your ethnic background? a: My father, Theodore Mondale, spoke Norwegian fluently even though he never visited Norway."

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