79 Facts About Senator Joe Lieberman

Joseph Isadore Lieberman is an American politician, lobbyist, and attorney who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013.

Senator Joe Lieberman narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Lowell Weicker in 1988 to win election to the US Senate and was re-elected in 1994,2000, and 2006.

Senator Joe Lieberman was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in the 2000 United States presidential election, running with presidential nominee and then Vice President Al Gore, and becoming the first Jewish candidate on a major American political party presidential ticket.

Senator Joe Lieberman unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election.

Senator Joe Lieberman was officially listed in Senate records for the 110th and 111th Congresses as an Independent Democrat, and sat as part of the Senate Democratic Caucus.

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Senator Joe Lieberman was born in Stamford, Connecticut, the son of Henry, who ran a liquor store, and Marcia Senator Joe Lieberman.

Senator Joe Lieberman's family is Jewish; his paternal grandparents emigrated from Congress Poland and his maternal grandparents were from Austria-Hungary.

Senator Joe Lieberman received a B A in both political science and economics from Yale University in 1964 and was the first member of his family to graduate from college.

Senator Joe Lieberman's roommate was Richard Sugarman, a Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Vermont and advisor to 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Senator Joe Lieberman later attended Yale Law School, receiving his LLB degree in 1967.

Spokesperson told the Hartford Courant in 1994 that Senator Joe Lieberman received an educational deferment from the Vietnam War draft when he was an undergraduate and law student from 1960 to 1967.

Senator Joe Lieberman was elected as a "reform Democrat" to the Connecticut Senate in 1970, where he served for 10 years, including the last six as Majority Leader.

Senator Joe Lieberman suffered his first defeat in Connecticut elections in the Reagan landslide year of 1980, losing the race for the Third District Congressional seat to Republican Lawrence Joseph DeNardis, a state senator from suburban Hamden with whom he had worked closely on bipartisan legislative efforts.

Senator Joe Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat in the 1988 election, defeating liberal Republican Lowell Weicker by a margin of 10,000 votes.

In 1994, Senator Joe Lieberman made history by winning by the largest landslide ever in a Connecticut Senate race, drawing 67 percent of the vote and beating his opponent by more than 350,000 votes.

In 1998, Senator Joe Lieberman was the first prominent Democrat to publicly challenge Clinton for the judgment exercised in his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

Senator Joe Lieberman sought the Democratic Party's renomination for US Senate from Connecticut in 2006 but lost to the comparatively more liberal Ned Lamont, a Greenwich businessman and antiwar candidate.

Five Democratic senators maintained their support for Lieberman, and Lieberman received the strong support of former senator and Democratic stalwart Bob Kerrey, who offered to stump for him.

When control of the Senate switched from Republicans to Democrats in June 2001, Senator Joe Lieberman became Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, with oversight responsibilities for a broad range of government activities.

Senator Joe Lieberman was a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee and chair of its Subcommittee Clean Air, Wetlands and Private Property; the Armed Services Committee, where he chaired the Airland Subcommittee and sat on the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities; and the Small Business Committee.

When Republicans gained control of the Senate in January 2003, Senator Joe Lieberman resumed his role as ranking minority member of the committees he had once chaired.

In 2002, as Chairman of what was then known as the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Lieberman led the fight to create a new Department of Homeland Security.

Senator Joe Lieberman urged FEMA to implement the reforms at a quicker pace.

Senator Joe Lieberman actively oversaw the government response to the H1N1 influenza pandemic and held four hearings on the subject in 2009, including one in Connecticut.

Senator Joe Lieberman has continually pressed the United States Department of Health and Human Services to distribute vaccines and antiviral medications at a quicker pace and to streamline the process.

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Senator Joe Lieberman was a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee; Senate Armed Services Committee, where he was Chairman of the Subcommittee on Air Land Forces and sat on the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities; and the Small Business Committee.

Senator Joe Lieberman was the first Jewish candidate on a major political party ticket.

Senator Joe Lieberman decided to run for re-election to maintain his seat, as Johnson, Bentsen and Biden did.

On January 13,2003, Senator Joe Lieberman announced his intention to seek the Democratic nomination as a candidate in the 2004 presidential election.

On February 3,2004, Senator Joe Lieberman withdrew his candidacy after failing to win any of the five primaries or two caucuses held that day.

Senator Joe Lieberman acknowledged to the Hartford Courant that his support for the war in Iraq was a large part of his undoing with voters.

Finally Senator Joe Lieberman withdrew from the race without winning a single contest.

Senator Joe Lieberman emphasized the group's outreach to supporters of Hillary Clinton, who was at that time broadly expected to lose the Democratic presidential nomination to Barack Obama.

Senator Joe Lieberman spoke at the 2008 Republican National Convention on behalf of McCain and his running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Senator Joe Lieberman was mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee on a McCain ticket.

ABC News reported that Senator Joe Lieberman was McCain's first choice for vice president until several days before the selection, when McCain had decided that picking Senator Joe Lieberman would alienate the conservative base of the Republican Party.

Senator Joe Lieberman had been mentioned as a possible Secretary of State under a McCain administration.

Many Democrats wanted Senator Joe Lieberman to be stripped of his chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs due to his support for John McCain which went against the party's wishes.

Subsequently, Senator Joe Lieberman announced that he would continue to caucus with the Democrats.

Senator Joe Lieberman credited President-elect Barack Obama for helping him keep his chairmanship.

In September 2018, Senator Joe Lieberman gave a eulogy at the funeral of John McCain, in which he stated that he had turned down a request to serve as McCain's 2008 running mate.

In February 2007, Senator Joe Lieberman spoke before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of the confirmation of Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium.

Senator Joe Lieberman was a supporter of the Iraq War and has urged action against Iran.

In July 2008, Senator Joe Lieberman spoke at the annual conference of Christians United for Israel then later, in July 2009, accepted from John Hagee CUFI's "Defender of Israel Award".

Senator Joe Lieberman has favored greater use of surveillance cameras by the federal government and referred to attempts by Congress to investigate illegal wire-tapping as "partisan gridlock".

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Senator Joe Lieberman has been a major opponent of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.

Senator Joe Lieberman was one of the Senate's strongest advocates for the war in Iraq.

Senator Joe Lieberman is a strong supporter of the US -Israel relationship.

Senator Joe Lieberman is a supporter of abortion rights and of the rights of gays and lesbians to adopt children, to be protected with hate crime legislation, and to serve openly in the military.

Senator Joe Lieberman was one of the Senate's leading opponents of violence in video games and on television.

Senator Joe Lieberman was an integral part in attempting to stop WikiLeaks from publishing further material using US -based corporations in the United States diplomatic cables leak of 2010.

In June 2015, Senator Joe Lieberman was a signatory to a public letter written by a bipartisan group of 19 US diplomats, experts, and others, on the then-pending negotiations for an agreement between Iran and world powers over Iran's nuclear program.

Senator Joe Lieberman announced on January 19,2011 that he would retire from the Senate at the end of his fourth term.

Senator Joe Lieberman was succeeded by Democratic representative Chris Murphy.

In February 2014, Senator Joe Lieberman was named as Counselor at the National Bureau of Asian Research.

In 2015, Senator Joe Lieberman served as co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Study Panel on Biodefense, a commission that recommended changes to US policy regarding biodefense.

Joe Lieberman headed the organization with former Governor Tom Ridge, and the Study Panel assembled in Washington DC for four meetings concerning current biodefense programs.

In March 2016, Senator Joe Lieberman was hired by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation to assist the group in challenging Connecticut laws giving exemptions to only the top two state gaming tribes to build casinos.

In 2016, Senator Joe Lieberman joined the Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council, an organization founded to address anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish bigotry in the United States.

Senator Joe Lieberman is on the advisory board of the Counter Extremism Project.

In early 2017, Senator Joe Lieberman introduced President elect Donald Trump's nominee as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee.

On May 17,2017, Senator Joe Lieberman was interviewed by President Donald Trump for the position of FBI Director, to replace recently fired James Comey.

Senator Joe Lieberman has continued to remain critical of Ocasio-Cortez, stating that “With all respect, I certainly hope she's not the future, and I don't believe she is.

In January 2019 Senator Joe Lieberman officially registered as a lobbyist working for ZTE but has stated that his work for the corporation will be limited to assess national security concerns and will not include actual lobbying.

In July 2022, Senator Joe Lieberman became one of the founding members of a group of US business and policy leaders which shares the goal of engaging constructively with China and improving US -China relations.

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Senator Joe Lieberman has held senior positions at the Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven, the American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International, Pfizer, National Research Council, Hoffmann-La Roche, and Lehman Brothers.

Senator Joe Lieberman has a stepson from Hadassah's previous marriage, Ethan Tucker.

Senator Joe Lieberman is the former head of the school of Greenfield Hebrew Academy in Atlanta.

Senator Joe Lieberman was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2020 United States Senate special election in Georgia.

Rebecca, Senator Joe Lieberman's daughter, graduated from Barnard College in 1991, and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1997.

Senator Joe Lieberman is related to Disney Channel star Raviv Ullman of Phil of the Future.

Senator Joe Lieberman's second wife, Hadassah, is an observant Modern Orthodox Jew.

Senator Joe Lieberman refers to himself as observant, as opposed to Orthodox, because he doesn't follow the strict Orthodox code and doesn't want to offend the Orthodox, and his wife feels the same way.

In one notable instance, then-Senator Lieberman walked to the Capitol after Sabbath services to block a Republican filibuster.

Senator Joe Lieberman has said that there is currently "a constitutional place for faith in our public life", and that the Constitution does not provide for "freedom from religion".

Senator Joe Lieberman attends Congregation Agudath Sholom in his hometown of Stamford.

Senator Joe Lieberman is an admirer of the last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

Senator Joe Lieberman was the first person of Jewish background or faith to run on a major party Presidential ticket.

Senator Joe Lieberman says that he likes to sing, and is a fan of Frank Sinatra, whose song "My Way" was the theme of his first Senate campaign.