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Former US senator Joe Lieberman, first Jewish VP nominee for major party, dies at 82
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Then-US senator from Connecticut Joe Lieberman leaving the West Wing of the White House after meeting with then-US president Donald Trump, on May 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Olivier Douliery/File)
Former US senator Joe Lieberman, the first Jewish vice presidential nominee on the ticket of a major American political party, has died at 82.
Lieberman, who was Al Gore’s running mate in 2000, died from complications from a fall, Punchbowl News reports in a social media post on X, citing the former senator’s family.
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