Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut’s four-term United States senator and Vice President Al Gore’s Democratic working mate within the 2000 presidential election received by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when the Supreme Courtroom halted a Florida poll recount, died on Wednesday in New York Metropolis. He was 82.
His household, in a press release, mentioned the trigger was issues of a fall. It offered no different particulars.
At his political peak on the edge of the vice presidency, Mr. Lieberman — a nationwide voice of morality as the primary main Democrat to rebuke President Invoice Clinton for his sexual relationship with the White Home intern Monica Lewinsky — was named Mr. Gore’s working mate on the Democratic Nationwide Conference that August, and have become the nation’s first Jewish candidate on a major-party presidential ticket.
Within the ensuing marketing campaign, the Gore-Lieberman workforce burdened themes of integrity to sidestep Clinton administration scandals. Mr. Lieberman additionally urged Individuals to deliver faith and religion extra prominently into public life. They received a slim plurality of the favored votes — a half-million greater than the Bush-Cheney Republican ticket. However on the night of Election Day, no clear winner had emerged within the Electoral Faculty, and an intense authorized battle took heart stage.
A full obituary will seem shortly.