Walter ‘Fritz’ Mondale, former vice president of the United States, is dead at 93. He served under democrat President Jimmy Carter from 1977-1981 before running his own unsuccessful presidential campaign in 1984.

Mondale was born to a Methodist minister and a music teacher in southern Minnesota in 1928. He worked on the U.S. Senate campaign of Hubert H. Humphrey beginning in 1948 before graduating from the University of Minnesota law school in 1956. Mondale served as state attorney general from 1960-1964. Elected as Jimmy Carter’s running mate in 1976, he was a key participant in the negotiations between Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which resulted in the Camp David Accords. Carter and Mondale were heavily defeated by Ronald Reagan and George Bush in the election of 1980. In his own presidential campaign with running mate Geraldine A. Ferraro in 1984, he again lost the election overwhelmingly to the Reagan-Bush ticket. Mondale then practiced law until he was appointed as ambassador to Japan by President Bill Clinton.

A statement made on Monday by Mondale’s family says, “It is with profound sadness that we share news that our beloved dad passed away today in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As we are proud of him leading the presidential ticket for Democrats in 1984, we know that our father’s public policy legacy is so much more than that.”