Former US Senator and Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joe Lieberman died Wednesday at 82. His family said in a statement that his death was caused by complications from a fall.
Lieberman, born on February 24, 1942, to a Jewish family in Stamford, Connecticut, attended Yale University for his undergraduate and law degrees. He was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in 1970 as a Democrat, where he later became majority leader. He became Connecticut attorney general in 1983, and in 1988 he challenged incumbent US Senator Lowell Weicker, a liberal Republican. With the support of fellow Yale alumni William F. Buckley, founder of the National Review, and his brother, former Senator James L. Buckley, Lieberman won the Senate seat.
In 2000, Al Gore chose Lieberman as his running mate. The ticket later narrowly lost to George W. Bush. Lieberman lost the Democratic nomination in his 2006 reelection campaign to future governor Ned Lamont, but won the general as an independent. He continued to caucus with the Democrats to maintain his committee assignments.
He endorsed John McCain for president in 2008 and was considered as a possible VP pick for McCain. Lieberman retired from the Senate in 2012.
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