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Did Jesse Jackson run for vice president?

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He campaigned for the 1984 Democratic Party Presidential Nomination, but it went to former Vice President Walter Mondale, and Mondale chose Geraldine Ferraro as the first ever female major-party U. S. vice presidential candidate.

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