Ferraro named vice presidential candidate 1984
Walter Mondale, the leading Democratic presidential candidate,
announces that he has chosen Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New
York as his running mate. Ferraro, a daughter of Italian immigrants, had
previously gained notoriety as a vocal advocate of women’s rights in
Congress.
Four days after Ferraro was named vice presidential candidate,
Governor Mario Cuomo of New York opened the Democratic National
Convention in San Francisco with an impassioned retort to Republican
President Ronald Reagan’s contention that the United States was a
“shining city on a hill.” Citing widespread poverty and racial strife,
Cuomo derided President Reagan as oblivious to the needs and problems of
many of America’s citizens. His enthusiastic keynote address
inaugurated a convention that saw Ferraro become the first woman
nominated by a major party for the vice presidency. However, Mondale,
the former U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter, proved a lackluster
choice for the Democratic presidential nominee.
On November 6, President Reagan and Vice President George Bush
defeated the Mondale-Ferraro ticket in the greatest Republican landslide
in U.S. history. The Republicans carried every state but
Minnesota–Mondale’s home state.
Ferraro left Congress in 1985. In 1992 and 1998, she made
unsuccessful bids for a U.S. Senate seat. During President Bill
Clinton’s administration, she was a permanent member on the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights.
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