Lester Mondale
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Mondale, R. Lester (28 May 1904 -19 Aug 2003)
The half-brother of former Vice President Walter Mondale, Lester Mondale was the youngest signer of HUMANIST MANIFESTO I and a spokesman for humanism in Unitarianism and Ethical Culture for many years.
In 1933 he led the Philadelphia Ethical Culture Society. He wrote Three Unitarian Philosophies of Religion (1946, 1952) and The New Man of Religious Humanism (1973).
Mondale once was president of the Fellowship of Religious Humanists, and he signed both HUMANIST MANIFESTO I and Humanist Manifesto II.
He was on the editorial board of The Humanist. In 1998 Mondale was given a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Fourth Annual Atheist Alliance Convention, and it was noted that he was the sole surviving signer of the 1933 Humanist Manifesto.
In 1999 he signed Humanist Manifesto 2000.
Walter Mondale, when a Senator, addressed the Fifth International Humanist and Ethical Union World Congress held in Boston (1970).
Mondale died in his sleep at the age of 99.
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