Whose resignation lead to Mondale's appointment to the U.S. Senate in 1964?
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Hubert Humphrey resigned from the Senate to accept the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States in 1964. He was defeated by Republican incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Mondale was appointed to Humphrey's Senate seat.
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