Richard Moe, a Minnesota native credited with reshaping the office of the vice president of the United States and later strengthening historic preservation efforts across the country, has died at 88.

According to his daughter, Alexandra Moe, he died of complications from Parkinson’s disease on Sept. 15 at an assisted living facility in Washington, D.C.

As an administrative assistant to then-Sen. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota, Moe, with the help of another senator, Minnesotan and Democrat — and former vice president — Hubert H. Humphrey, persuaded Mondale to consider the vice presidency.

A few months later, future president Jimmy Carter picked Mondale as his running mate.

Up to that point, the only real role the vice president had was to be ready to step in if something were to happen

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