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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeAlbert Arnold GORE
(1907-1998)
Senate Years of Service:
1953-1971Party: DemocratGORE, Albert Arnold,
(father of Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.), a Representative and a Senator
from Tennessee; born in Granville, Jackson County, Tenn., December
26, 1907; attended the public schools; graduated from State
Teachers’ College, Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 1932, and from
Nashville (Tenn.) Y.M.C.A. night law school in 1936; taught in the
rural schools of Overton and Smith Counties, Tenn., 1926-1930;
county superintendent of education of Smith County 1932-1936;
admitted to the bar in 1936 and commenced practice in Carthage,
Tenn.; Tennessee commissioner of labor 1936-1937; elected as a
Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress in 1938; reelected to the
two succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until
his resignation on December 4, 1944, to enter the United States
Army; reelected to the Seventy-ninth and to the three succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1945-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate
for reelection but was elected in 1952 to the United States Senate;
reelected in 1958 and again in 1964, and served from January 3,
1953, to January 3, 1971; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1970; chairman, Special Committee on Attempts to Influence Senators
(Eighty-fourth Congress); resumed the practice of law with
Occidental Petroleum Co. and became vice president and member of
the board of directors; taught law at Vanderbilt University
1970-1972; member of the board of petroleum and coal companies; was
a resident of Carthage, Tenn. until his death on December 5, 1998;
interment in Smith County Memorial Gardens in Carthage, Tenn.
Bibliography
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Gore, Albert.
Let the Glory Out: My South and Its Politics. New York:
Viking Press, 1972; Longley, Kyle. Senator Albert Gore, Sr.:
Tennessee Maverick. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 2004.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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