United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1942, and attended public schools there. He was even elected President of his high school senior class. In the summer of 1963 during the height of the civil rights movement, Senator Lieberman traveled down to Mississippi to help African Americans register to vote. After that summer, he attended Yale College and received his bachelor's degree in 1964 and his law degree from Yale Law School in 1967.

Senator Lieberman was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in 1970 and served there for ten years, including the last six as Majority Leader. In 1980, he returned to private legal practice for two years, and from 1983 through 1988, he served as Connecticut's 21st Attorney General. As Attorney General, the chief law enforcement officer in Connecticut, he took on polluters of Connecticut's environment and went after deadbeat dads by strengthening child support enforcement.

When Senator Lieberman was first elected to the United States Senate in 1988, he scored the nation's biggest political upset that year, winning by a margin of just 10,000 votes. You may remember that in the year 2000 Senator Lieberman ran for Vice President with Al Gore as his Presidential running mate. The election results were so close that the United States Supreme Court was asked to step in. While Vice President Gore and Senator Lieberman won the popular vote, they lost in the Electoral College by one vote. Senator Lieberman continued to serve in the Senate and was reelected for six more years in November of 2006 as an Independent Democrat. He has already served in the Senate for over 19 years!

Senator Lieberman is Chairman and former Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which is in charge of overseeing the Department of Homeland Security and assuring that the Federal Government runs effectively and efficiently. In addition, he is a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee where he is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection; the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Small Business Committee.

Being a United States Senator isn't Senator Lieberman's only job; he is also a father and a grandfather. Together, he and his wife Hadassah are the proud parents of four children: Matthew, Rebecca, Ethan and Hana. They have four grandchildren: three granddaughters, Tennessee, Willie and Eden, and a grandson, Yitzhak.

Senator Lieberman and Hadassah currently live in Stamford, Connecticut, and are adjusting to an "empty nest" as their youngest daughter Hana recently left home for college.

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