Joe Lieberman
American politician (1942–2024)
Joseph Isadore Lieberman (; February 24, 1942 – March 27, 2024) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's vice presidential nominee in the 2000 presidential election. During his final term in office, he was officially listed as an Independent Democrat and caucused with and chaired committees for the Democratic Party.
Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Lieberman earned both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws from Yale University. He was elected as a Democrat in 1970 to the Connecticut Senate, where he served three terms as majority leader. After an unsuccessful bid for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980, he served as the Connecticut attorney general from 1983 to 1989. He narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Lowell Weicker in 1988 to win election to the U.S. Senate and was re-elected in 1994, 2000, and 2006.
In 2000, incumbent Vice President and presidential nominee Al Gore selected Lieberman as his running mate for the presidential election. In doing so, Lieberman also became the first Jewish candidate on a U.S. major party presidential ticket. In the general election, while winning the popular vote, Gore and Lieberman were defeated by the Republican ticket of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
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