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He decided to run for re-election to maintain his Senate seat, as vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan did for their senatorial and congressional seats respectively in 2008 and 2012. [93] Lieberman would subsequently win his re-election and continued serving in the Senate until his retirement in 2012. [94]
Joe Lieberman (109th Congress) Joe Lieberman (February 24, 1942 – March 27, 2024) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. A former member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's nominee for Vice President in the 2000 election. He was an Independent prior to his death.
US Vice President and Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Gore (L) and US Senator Joseph Lieberman (R) salute the crowd at a rally where Gore formally announced Lieberman as his vice presidential ...
"Senator Lieberman’s love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life of service in the public interest," his family said. ... Lieberman was the Democratic vice presidential ...
Lieberman was the Democratic Party's vice presidential nominee in the 2000 election, which was won by Republican George W. Bush over Democrat Al Gore. Lieberman was the first Jewish candidate on a ...
In August 2000, Gore announced that he had selected Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut as his vice presidential running mate. Lieberman became the first person of the Jewish faith to appear on a major party's presidential ticket (Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential nominee in 1964, was of Jewish descent but identified as an Episcopalian). [4]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who nearly won the vice presidency on the Democratic ticket with Al Gore in the disputed 2000 election and who almost became Republican John McCain's running mate eight years later, has died, according to a statement issued by his family.
Lieberman came tantalizingly close to winning the vice presidency in the contentious 2000 presidential contest that was decided by a 537-vote margin victory for George W. Bush in Florida after a drawn-out recount, legal challenges and a Supreme Court decision. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major party’s presidential ticket.