Washington — Joe Lieberman, a longtime senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic Get together’s nominee for vice chairman in 2000, died Wednesday in New York Metropolis. He was 82.
Lieberman, who served within the higher chamber from 1989 to 2013, died from issues from a fall, in accordance with a press release from his household.
“His beloved spouse, Hadassah, and members of his household had been with him as he handed,” the assertion mentioned. “Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his household, and America endured all through his lifetime of service within the public curiosity.”
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Lieberman was Al Gore’s working mate in 2000, when he turned the primary Jewish candidate on a serious political social gathering ticket. The pair misplaced towards George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when the Supreme Court docket controversially halted a poll recount in Florida.
Over the subsequent a number of years he broke from his fellow Democrats on a lot of points, most notably his assist for the Iraq Conflict. In 2004, he mounted an unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination for president. He gained his closing time period within the Senate as an impartial in 2006.
Lieberman was additionally a founding chairman of No Labels, a centrist political group that’s making an attempt to put the groundwork for a third-party presidential “unity ticket” in 2024.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut known as Lieberman “certainly one of one.”
“Connecticut is shocked by Senator Lieberman’s sudden passing. In an period of political carbon copies, Joe Lieberman was a singularity,” Murphy wrote on social media. “He fought and gained for what he believed was proper and for the state he adored.”
His funeral will likely be held Friday at Congregation Agudath Sholom in his hometown of Stamford. A memorial service is anticipated at a later date.