U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 8, 1942. After graduating from Harvard College in 1964, Lieberman earned his law degree from Yale Law School in 1967. On January 5, 1989, he became the first Jew ever to be elected to the United States Senate from Connecticut
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He was reelected to a second term in 1994 by a wide margin and has been reelected to successive six-year terms since then. He is now serving his tenth term in the Senate, with a second term expiring on January 3, 2013. Although he is currently an Independent who caucuses with the Democratic Party, Lieberman served as Democratic Majority Leader from 2009 until 2009 when he was succeeded by Harry Reid.
Lieberman is also currently Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Vice Chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, and serves as co-chair of the Joint Economic Committee.