MINNEAPOLIS — A lot of Minnesotans woke up Tuesday wondering what will happen in the future, so we looked back at what's happened in our past.
If elected with Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz would be the third person from the North Star State to ascend to the vice presidency within the last 60 years.
Former Minnesota Democratic Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey was the first to wade the vice presidential pool, being nominated in 1964 alongside President Lyndon Johnson. (Interestingly enough, 1964 was the year Tim Walz was born.)
Humphrey ran for president in 1968 while he was VP but would go on to lose to President Richard Nixon.
Minnesota's second VP, former state Attorney General and Sen. Walter Mondale, was elected in 1976 to serve alongside President Jimmy Carter. Mondale also followed his tenure as No. 2 in pursuit of holding the country's top executive office but would ultimately be beaten in a landslide by President Ronald Regan.
Other figures in Minnesota's political history have come close to joining the club like former Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty, who was considered and vetted twice — once by Arizona Sen. John McCain and a second time by former Massachusetts Gov. and current Utah Sen. Mitt Romney.
Later in an interview with Katie Couric, Pawlenty said when he learned McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin instead, he went out to walk his dog and said, "She did her business, and when I picked it up I thought to myself, 'This is the only number two I'm going to be getting.'"