# Joe Lieberman > [!note] Stub — created 2026-10-11 to close a broken wikilink on [[Al Gore]]. Expand. US Senator from Connecticut for four terms (1989–2013) and [[Al Gore]]'s running mate in the [[2000 Presidential Election]] — the first Jewish candidate on a major-party presidential ticket. He died in **March 2024, aged 82**. Why he matters to this vault, in one line: he is the clearest late-20th-century case of a **Democrat whose foreign policy made him a Republican asset**. A leading Democratic supporter of the [[Iraq War]], he lost his party's 2006 Senate primary over it, won re-election as an independent, and in 2008 endorsed and campaigned for John McCain against Barack Obama while still caucusing with the Democrats. He later chaired the centrist group No Labels, whose 2024 third-party exploration drew sustained Democratic alarm about spoiler effects. ## To fill in - The 2006 primary loss and independent re-election — the mechanics of surviving a party rejection. - His chairmanship of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. - The No Labels chapter and the 2024 third-party question. - His role in shaping the 2009 Affordable Care Act's final form. ## See Also - [[Al Gore]] — the 2000 ticket - [[2000 Presidential Election]] · [[Iraq War]]