Former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the Democratic vice presidential candidate in the 2000 election, passed away Wednesday at age 82, The Washington Post reported.
Lieberman’s family said the cause of his death was a fall, the outlet noted. (RELATED: ‘They’re Our Enemies’: Joe Lieberman Warns Biden Admin Against Pursuing Iran Nuclear Deal ‘At Any Price’)
Breaking news: Joseph I. Lieberman, the doggedly independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died at 82. https://t.co/QAowaD6l6p
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 27, 2024
Lieberman made history when he was the first Jewish candidate to be picked by Al Gore as candidate for the Vice Presidency in 2000, the outlet reported. Lieberman was very public about his attachment to the Jewish faith.
“Lieberman was a Jew from my hometown. He prayed at the same synagogue my family belongs to in Stamford. He prayed at the same synagogue I went to periodically in college. I saw him walking to the Capitol a few times on Saturday from his home in Georgetown. It was very cool to see a[n] observant Jew in prominent public office,” Jake Sherman, founder of Punchbowl News, tweeted in the former senator’s memory.
Lieberman was a Jew from my hometown. He prayed at the same synagogue my family belongs to in Stamford. He prayed at the same synagogue I went to periodically in college. I saw him walking to the Capitol a few times on Saturday from his home in Georgetown. It was very cool to see… https://t.co/PNemEcEfun
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 27, 2024
Lieberman retired from politics following the conclusion of his fourth term in the Senate in 2012, according to The Christian Science Monitor.