1 of 9 | Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., who was the first Jewish American to be nominated on a major party’s ticket in 2000, has died at the age of 82 “due to complications from a fall.” File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI | License Photo
March 27 (UPI) — Longtime U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who was a vice presidential nominee for the Democratic Party in 2000, has died at the age of 82.
Lieberman, who served in the U.S. Senate for 24 years, died Wednesday “due to complications from a fall,” according to a statement from his family. “His wife, Hadassah, and members of his family were with him as he passed.”
Lieberman, who was born in Stamford, Conn., in 1942, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1988 after serving as a Connecticut state senator and attorney general. Before that, he attended and completed law school at Yale in 1967.
Lieberman…
