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Joseph I. Lieberman, Senator and Vice-Presidential Nominee, Dies at 82

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He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman with fellow senators at the Capitol building in Washington in 2010. After serving three terms as a Democrat, he was re-elected as an independent in 2006.Credit...Drew Angerer for The New York Times

Published March 27, 2024Updated March 29, 2024

Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut's four-term United States senator and Vice President Al Gore's Democratic running mate in the 2000 presidential election, which was won by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when the Supreme Court halted a Florida ballot recount, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 82.

His family said in a statement that the cause was complications of a fall. His brother-in-law Ary Freilich said that Mr. Lieberman's fall occurred at his home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and that he died at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Upper Manhattan.

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 in Los Angeles. He became the nation's first Jewish candidate on a major-party presidential ticket.

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Mr. Lieberman with Al Gore in Nashville in July 2000, when Mr. Gore formally introduced Mr. Lieberman as his running mate.Credit...Win McNamee/Reuters

In the ensuing campaign, the Gore-Lieberman team stressed themes of integrity to sidestep the Clinton administration' scandals, and Mr. Lieberman urged Americans to bring religion and faith more prominently into public life.

The ticket 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 struggle took center stage.

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