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Senate Years of Service: 1985-1993 Party: Democrat
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GORE, Albert Arnold, Jr., (son of Albert Arnold Gore),
a Representative and Senator from Tennessee, and a Vice President of
the United States; born in Washington, D.C., March 31, 1948; attended the
public elementary schools of Carthage, Tenn.; graduated, St. Albans High
School, Washington, D.C., 1965; graduated, Harvard University 1969; attended
Vanderbilt University School of Religion, Nashville, Tenn., 1971-1972 and the
School of Law 1974-1976; business executive; engaged in real estate development
in Carthage; served in United States Army 1969-1971 in Viet Nam; investigative
reporter for the Nashville Tennessean 1971-1976; elected in 1976 as a Democrat
to the Ninety-fifth Congress; reelected to the three succeeding Congresses
(January 3, 1977-January 3, 1985); was not a candidate for reelection in 1984
to the House of Representatives, but was elected in November 1984 to the United
States Senate; reelected in 1990 and served from January 3, 1985, until his
resignation on January 2, 1993; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination in 1988; elected Vice President of the United States on
the Democratic ticket headed by William Jefferson Clinton in 1992 and was
inaugurated on January 20, 1993; reelected Vice President in 1996; unsuccessful
Democratic candidate for president in 2000.
BibliographyGore, Al.
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992; Gore, Al, and Tipper Gore,
Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American
Family. New York: H. Holt, 2002; Gore, Al,
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and
What We Can Do About It. Emmaus, Penn.: Rodale Press, 2006.
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