has a wide lead in total delegates (1,564 to 941) ... because of his victories in the big industrial states, his support from the Democratic Establishment and the arcane provisions of delegate-selection rules that his vanguard helped draft two years ago." After the final primary in California, on June 5, which Hart won, Mondale was about 40 delegates short of the total he needed for the nomination. However, at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco on July 16, Mondale received the overwhelming support of the unelected superdelegates from the party establishment to win the nomination. Mondale's nomination marked the second time since the nomination of former governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter in 1976 and the fourth time since the nomination of former Representative John W. Davis in 1924 that the Democratic Party nominated a private citizen for president (not serving in an official government role at the time of the nomination and election). Mondale was the last private citizen to be nominated for president by the Democratic Party until former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016. He was also the last former vice president to be nominated for president by the Democratic Party after leaving office until Joe Biden in 2020. This race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination was the closest in two generations, and, as of 2020, it was the last occasion that a major party's race for the presidential nomination went all the way to its convention. Endorsements Note: These are only those endorsements which occurred during or before the primary race. Mondale had received endorsements from: United States House of Representatives Representative Jim Bates of California Representative Edward Boland of Massachusetts Representative Rick Boucher of Virginia Representative Joseph D. Early of Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts Representative Robert García of New York Representative Sam Gejdenson of Connecticut Representative Tom Harkin of Iowa Representative Joe Moakley of Massachusetts Representative Charles B. Rangel of New York Representative William R. Ratchford of Connecticut Representative James Michael Shannon of Massachusetts Governors and State Constitutional officers New York Attorney General Robert Abrams Governor Mario Cuomo of New York Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller of Georgia Former officeholders Former President Jimmy Carter of Georgia Former diplomats, board members and other officials Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk of Georgia Organizations and unions AFL–CIO Alabama Democratic Conference National Education Association National Organization for Women Current and former state and local officials