Joseph I. Lieberman, Senator and Vice Presidential Candidate, Dies at 82
He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut before Al Gore chose him as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket. Credit…Drew Angerer for The New York Times March 27, 2024, 5:42 p.m. ET Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut’s four-term United States senator and Vice […]
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He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut before Al Gore chose him as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.
Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut’s four-term United States senator and Vice President Al Gore’s Democratic running mate in the 2000 presidential election won by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when the Supreme Court halted a Florida ballot recount, died on Wednesday in New York City. He was 82.
His family, in a statement, said the cause was complications of a fall. It provided no other details.
At his political peak on the threshold of the vice presidency, Mr. Lieberman — a national voice of morality as the first major Democrat to rebuke President Bill Clinton for his sexual relationship with the White House intern Monica Lewinsky — was named Mr. Gore’s running mate at the Democratic National Convention that August, and became the nation’s first Jewish candidate on a major-party presidential ticket.
In the ensuing campaign, the Gore-Lieberman team stressed themes of integrity to sidestep Clinton administration scandals. Mr. Lieberman also urged Americans to bring religion and faith more prominently into public life. They won a narrow plurality of the popular votes — a half-million more than the Bush-Cheney Republican ticket. But on the evening of Election Day, no clear winner had emerged in the Electoral College, and an intense legal battle took center stage.
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