The son of former Vice President Walter Mondale has announced his candidacy for Minnesota governor, the first of three children with a political pedigree expected to jump into the race.

Former state Sen. Ted Mondale announced Monday he will seek the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party's nomination.Also expected to run are state Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III, son of Lyndon Johnson's vice president, and Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, whose father, Orville, was governor and then President John F. Kennedy's agriculture secretary.

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