Please answer the following question: What key details about joe lieberman can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: joseph isadore '' joe '' lieberman -lrb- born february 24 , 1942 -rrb- is an american politician and former united states senator from connecticut . a former member of the democratic party , he was the party 's nominee for vice president in the 2000 election . currently an independent , he remains closely associated with the party . born in stamford , connecticut , lieberman is a graduate of yale college and yale law school . he was elected as a '' reform democrat '' in 1970 to the connecticut senate , where he served three terms as majority leader . after an unsuccessful bid for the u.s. house of representatives in 1980 , he served as state attorney general from 1983 to 1989 . lieberman defeated moderate republican lowell weicker in 1988 to win election to the senate and was re-elected in 1994 and 2000 . lieberman was the democratic nominee for vice president in the 2000 united states presidential election , running with presidential nominee al gore , becoming the first jewish candidate on a major american political party presidential ticket . in the 2000 presidential election , gore and lieberman won the popular vote by a margin of more than 500,000 votes but lost the deciding electoral college to the republican george w. bush / dick cheney ticket 271 -- 266 . the u.s. supreme court settled the legal controversy over the florida vote recount by ruling 5 -- 4 to stop recounting votes , effectively ensuring bush 's election . it was the only time in history that the supreme court has ruled on a case directly related to a presidential election . lieberman also unsuccessfully sought the democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election . during his re-election bid in 2006 , he lost the democratic party primary election but won re-election in the general election as a third party candidate under the '' connecticut for lieberman '' party label . lieberman himself was never a member of that party , but instead remained a registered democrat while he ran . lieberman was officially listed in senate records for...
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- jr/sr is united states senator- signature is joe lieberman signature.svg- successor is chris riddle murphy tom carper susan collins fred thompson clarine- party is democratic -lrb- 1989 -- 2006 -rrb-- predecessor is lowell ajello weicker susan collins fred thompson fred thompson carl- office is chairman attorney general of connecticut of the senate committee on homeland security 21st- term end is january 3 , 2003 january 20 , 2001 january 3 , 3 1989 , 2013 january 3 , 2013 january- term start is january 6 , 2001 january 3 , 2001 january 5 , 3 1983 , 1989 january 4 , 2007 june- state is connecticut- name is joe lieberman- birth date is 24 february 1942- birthname is joseph isadore lieberman- image is joe lieberman official portrait 2.jpg- birth place is stamford , connecticut , u.s.- governor is william o'neill