{"id":111848,"date":"2024-03-28T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=111848"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:20:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T11:20:43","slug":"01-00-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=111848","title":{"rendered":"Former US Senator Joe Lieberman, First Jew on Major Party Presidential Ticket, Dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Former US Senator Joe Lieberman, First Jew on Major Party Presidential Ticket, Dies at 82<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Reuters<\/strong> and <\/span><\/em>Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Former US Senator Joe Lieberman speaks at an event in Ashraf-3 camp, which is a base for the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) in Manza, Albania, July 13, 2019. Photo: REUTERS\/Florion Goga<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Former US Senator and Democratic Party vice presidential nominee\u00a0Joe\u00a0<\/span>Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>died on Wednesday at age 82 in New York City after suffering complications from a fall, his family said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHis beloved wife, Hadassah, and members of his family were with him when he passed,\u201d the statement said. \u201cSenator\u00a0Lieberman<\/span>\u2018s love of God, his family, and America endured throughout his life of service in the public interest.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>was the Democratic Party\u2019s vice presidential nominee in the 2000 election, which was won by Republican George W. Bush over Democrat Al Gore.\u00a0Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>was the first Jewish candidate on a major party presidential ticket in the US. He was an ardent supporter of both Israel and Iranian opposition groups seeking to overthrow the Islamist regime in Tehran.<\/span><\/p>\n

The former senator failed in a bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination, hurt by his support for the Iraq War.<\/span><\/p>\n

A centrist,\u00a0Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>was first elected to the US Senate in 1988. He lost the state\u2019s Democratic primary in 2006, but retained his seat by winning the general election as an independent candidate.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a further break from the Democratic Party,\u00a0Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>endorsed Republican Senator John McCain for president in a speech at the Republican National Convention in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n

But\u00a0Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>would later back Democrats Hillary Clinton in 2016 and\u00a0Joe\u00a0<\/span>Biden in 2020 in their bids for the presidency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>retired from the Senate in 2013 after four six-year terms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJoe\u00a0<\/span>was as fine an American as they come and one of the most decent people I met during my time in Washington,\u201d Republican former President George W. Bush said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Most recently,\u00a0Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>was leading No Labels, a centrist group that hopes to launch an outsider bid for the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a recent Reuters interview,\u00a0Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>discussed the effort and how it at times felt like building a plane in midair.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re doing something that I think hasn\u2019t been done before. We are on the ground getting on the ballot and going to let a candidate emerge and take on the rest,\u201d\u00a0Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s quite different. So, frankly, there was no choice but to build a plane and fly it while it was being built. And I\u2019m very grateful to how far we\u2019ve come under those circumstances,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lieberman<\/span>, who held a law degree from Yale Law School, was a member of the Connecticut State Senate and then attorney general of Connecticut before becoming a US senator.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lieberman\u00a0<\/span>had three children from two marriages; his first marriage ended in divorce.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lieberman<\/span>\u2018s funeral was set for Friday in his hometown of Stamford, Connecticut.<\/span><\/p>\n

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