Editing Joe Lieberman (section)

==Early political career==
[[File:Reagan Contact Sheet C20739 (cropped2).jpg|thumb|left|Lieberman with President [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1984]]
[[File:Bush Contact Sheet P19345 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Lieberman with President [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1991]]

Lieberman was elected to the [[Connecticut Senate]] in 1970, where he served for 10 years, including the last six as Majority Leader.<ref name="nyt-obit">{{cite news |last1=McFadden |first1=Robert D. |title=Joseph I. Lieberman, Senator and Vice-Presidential Nominee, Dies at 82 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/us/politics/joseph-i-lieberman-dead.html |access-date=March 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=March 28, 2024 |archive-date=March 27, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240327221249/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/us/politics/joseph-i-lieberman-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He suffered his first defeat in Connecticut elections in the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] landslide year of 1980, losing the race for the third district congressional seat to Republican [[Lawrence Joseph DeNardis]],<ref name="nhi-obit">{{cite news |last1=Bass |first1=Paul |title=Ex-Sen. Joe Lieberman Dies |url=https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/ex_sen_joe_lieberman_dies |access-date=March 29, 2024 |work=New Haven Independent |date=March 27, 2024 |archive-date=March 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329144424/https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/ex_sen_joe_lieberman_dies |url-status=live }}</ref> a state senator from suburban [[Hamden, Connecticut|Hamden]]<ref name="hbj-denardis">{{cite news |last1=Bingham |first1=Michael C. |title=Remembrance: Lawrence J. DeNardis, 1938–2018 |url=https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/remembrance-lawrence-j-denardis-1938-2018 |access-date=March 30, 2024 |work=Hartford Business Journal |date=August 28, 2018 |archive-date=April 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240401052446/https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/remembrance-lawrence-j-denardis-1938-2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> with whom he had worked closely on bipartisan legislative efforts.<ref name="wpost-denardis">{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Edward |title=Centrist In Debt To JFK |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/06/15/centrist-in-debt-to-jfk/f78d8d41-72a2-430f-b2b4-3bf97c9bde1c/ |access-date=March 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 14, 2003}}</ref> In 1981 he wrote an admiring biography of long-time Connecticut and national Democratic leader [[John Moran Bailey]], reviewing also in the book the previous 50 years of Connecticut political history.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEED61538F933A15751C1A967948260 Review of ''THE LEGACY: Connecticut Politics 1930–1980''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329234406/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/20/nyregion/books-lieberman-profiles-john-bailey.html |date=March 29, 2024 }} Book by Joseph I. Lieberman. Introduction by Jack Zaiman. Cartoons by Ed Valtman. 215 pages. Spoonwood Press. Review in ''The New York Times'', December 20, 1981. Retrieved September 24, 2010.</ref>

From 1983 to 1989, Lieberman served as [[Connecticut Attorney General]].<ref>The official web site of the Connecticut Attorney General's office is at http://www.ct.gov/ag/site/default.asp {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080830120134/http://www.ct.gov/ag/site/default.asp |date=August 30, 2008 }}.</ref> He argued one case before the United States Supreme Court, ''[[Estate of Thornton v. Caldor, Inc.]]'', a free exercise case involving Connecticut's repeal of its [[blue law]]s.<ref name=":0"/> In the 1986 general election, Lieberman won more votes than any other Democrat on the statewide ticket, including Governor [[William O'Neill (Connecticut politician)|William O'Neill]].<ref>Kornacki, Steve (January 19, 2011) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110120182508/http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/01/18/joe_lieberman_origins/index.html The making (and unmaking) of Joe Lieberman], ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]''</ref> As Attorney General, Lieberman emphasized consumer protection and environmental enforcement.<ref name="cpr-remember">{{cite news |title='Connecticut was always in his heart': Former US Senator Joe Lieberman remembered in state he served |url=https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2024-03-28/joe-lieberman-death-connecticut-independent-obituary |access-date=March 29, 2024 |work=Connecticut Public Radio |publisher=Connecticut Public |date=March 28, 2024 |language=en |archive-date=March 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329234405/https://www.ctpublic.org/news/2024-03-28/joe-lieberman-death-connecticut-independent-obituary |url-status=live }}</ref>