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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Tennessee / USAlbert Arnold GORE, Jr.
(1948- )
Senate Years of Service:
1985-1993Party: DemocratGORE, 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.
Bibliography
Gore, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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