Former Vice President Walter Mondale has passed away at age 93

[Calthrina950]

With Mondale's death, there are only 12 11 remaining Senators from the 72nd Congress. With the exception of President Biden, all were out of office by 1997. The only other one to even run for office in this century is Mike Gravel in 2008 and 2020. Hopefully they stick around, but there's a chance that by the end of a hypothetical Biden second term he could be the only one.

The 72nd Congress? That Congress met from 1931-1933, in the latter half of Hoover's presidency. Do you mean the 93rd Congress, which met from 1973-1975?

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

With Mondale's death, there are only 12 11 remaining Senators from the 72nd Congress. With the exception of President Biden, all were out of office by 1997. The only other one to even run for office in this century is Mike Gravel in 2008 and 2020. Hopefully they stick around, but there's a chance that by the end of a hypothetical Biden second term he could be the only one.

The 72nd congress? As in the one FDR became president? I think you have the wrong number as no one from the 1800s is alive

[Anti-Trump Truth Socialite JD Vance Enjoying Juror]

93rd Congress, yes. The were elected in 1972. Maybe that's where I got it from.

[TheTide]

The last nominee of the New Deal/Great Society tradition in some ways. RIP.

[Sir Mohamed]

RIP Major FF to a progressive icon who redefined the role of VP.

It's too sad how Reagan "won" one debate with a joke when he was pretty weak otherwise.

[Mr. Smith]

With Mondale's death, there are only 12 11 remaining Senators from the 93rd Congress. With the exception of President Biden, all were out of office by 1997. The only other one to even run for office in this century is Mike Gravel in 2008 and 2020. Hopefully they stick around, but there's a chance that by the end of a hypothetical Biden second term he could be the only one.

And Leahy is the only one still in office!

[Calthrina950]

With Mondale's death, there are only 12 11 remaining Senators from the 93rd Congress. With the exception of President Biden, all were out of office by 1997. The only other one to even run for office in this century is Mike Gravel in 2008 and 2020. Hopefully they stick around, but there's a chance that by the end of a hypothetical Biden second term he could be the only one.

And Leahy is the only one still in office!

Not from the 93rd Congress. Leahy entered the Senate in January 1975, at the start of the 94th Congress.

[Sir Mohamed]

With Mondale's death, there are only 12 11 remaining Senators from the 93rd Congress. With the exception of President Biden, all were out of office by 1997. The only other one to even run for office in this century is Mike Gravel in 2008 and 2020. Hopefully they stick around, but there's a chance that by the end of a hypothetical Biden second term he could be the only one.

And Leahy is the only one still in office!

Not from the 93rd Congress. Leahy entered the Senate in January 1975, at the start of the 94th Congress.

Only Don Young is the only remaining member of congress still serving from the 93rd, as he's been there since 1973.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

A massive FF and one of the three great Minnesota Senators of that era, along with Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy Paul Wellstone.

FIFY.  Somewhat.  If Eugene McCarthy hadn't (A) taken on LBJ in 1968 (considered initially to be a suicide mission) and (B) ran strongly in New Hampshire (leading LBJ to drop out, fearing that RFK would beat him), he'd have been a forgotten figure. 

McCarthy taught at the college where I spent my freshman year; he had left a year before I arrived.  The (very, very liberal) faculty there were not impressed with him, and in their own personal anecdotes, they confirmed much of the conventional wisdom about McCarthy; that he was a poor practical politician with not a real feel for what politics in America was all about. 

McCarthy was a man motivated by pique.  He didn't endorse HHH in 1968 until it was very late in the campaign, and that was because (according to author Ronald Van Doren) HHH didn't offer to make McCarthy Secretary of State.  He just quit politics in 1970.  In 1976 he played the spoiler in the GE, almost costing Jimmy Carter NY state, and he endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1980.  If there's a common theme here, or even a logical progression, I fail to see it.

Mondale and HHH were WAY beyond McCarthy in ability and accomplishment.