Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut’s four-term United States senator and Vice President Al Gore’s Democratic operating mate within the 2000 presidential election, which was gained by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when the Supreme Court docket halted a Florida poll recount, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 82.
His household stated in a press release that the trigger was issues of a fall. His brother-in-law Ary Freilich stated that Mr. Lieberman’s fall occurred at his house within the Riverdale part of the Bronx and that he died at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Higher Manhattan.
At his political peak, on the brink 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 operating mate on the Democratic Nationwide Conference that August in Los Angeles. He grew to become the nation’s first Jewish candidate on a major-party presidential ticket.
Within the ensuing marketing campaign, the Gore-Lieberman staff harassed themes of integrity to sidestep the Clinton administration’ scandals, and Mr. Lieberman urged Individuals to carry faith and religion extra prominently into public life.
The ticket gained a slender 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 middle stage.
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