Al Gore

He is often cited as a relative (most commonly cousin) of famed author/commentator/playwright Gore Vidal (As 'Gore' is Vidal's mother's maiden name). However, the men share no 'Gore' ancestors dating as far back to the early 1700s.

Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA as Albert Arnold Gore Jr.

Though he claims Tennessee as his home state, and was a congressman and senator from that state, he lived there for only four years of his entire life. He was born in Washington, DC (his father, Albert Gore Sr.., was a senator from Tennessee). He lived in DC until he graduated from high school, then moved to Harvard from 1965-1969. After graduating from Harvard, he was a journalist in the US Army in Vietnam from 1969-1971. The only years he lived in Tennessee were from 1971-1976, when he attended Vanderbilt Law School. He never practiced law, however, because a few months after graduation from law school in 1976 he was elected to the US House of Representatives. Later he was elected to the US Senate, where he served until January 1993.

Announced on CBS's 60 Minutes (1968) that he will not be running for President in 2004. [December 2002]

Graduated with honors from Harvard University, with a degree in government. [1969]

Children: Karenna Gore (born August 6, 1973), Kristin Gore (born June 5, 1977), Sarah Gore (born January 7, 1979) and Albert Gore III (born October 19, 1982).

Served in the US House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Tennessee, 3 January 1977 - 3 January 1985.

Born to Albert Gore Sr.., a U.S. Representative and Senator from Tennessee, and his wife Pauline LaFon Gore, he had one older sister, Nancy Gore Hunger (died in 1984 from lung cancer).

Served as a Democratic US senator from Tennessee, 3 January 1985 - 2 January 1993 (resigned; sworn in as vice president on 20 January 1993).

Good friends with Matt Groening. He has made voice-over appearances as himself on his shows The Simpsons (1989) and Futurama (1999).

While appearing as a guest on The Dennis Miller Show (1992), he was asked about having confessed to smoking marijuana. Miller followed the question up by asking, "So, who rolls a tighter joint, you or Tipper?" Gore chuckled and cleverly side-stepped, managing not to give a real answer. Tipper Gore, however, who was watching just out of camera range, was shocked and fumed, not at all pleased with the line of questioning.

Vice president of The United States, 20 January 1993 - 20 January 2001.

From an article by Mountain Democrat columnist David Jacobsen: "In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Taken in context, the sentence, despite some initial ambiguity, means that as a congressman Gore promoted the system we enjoy today, not that he could patent the science, though that's how the quotation has been manipulated. Hence the disingenuous substitution of "inventing" for the actual language."

Ran for President and won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote 271-266. On election night several TV networks twice declared a winner in the state of Florida prematurely based on exit polls, before deciding the race was too close to call. It became clear that both candidates needed Florida's electoral votes to win the presidency. A month of controversial court challenges and recounts followed, until the Supreme Court of the United States in Bush v. Gore voted 7-2 to declare the ongoing recount procedure unconstitutional because it feared that different standards would be used in different parts of the state. It then halted further recounts by voting 5-4 to ban further recounts using alternate procedures. George W. Bush was certified as the winner in Florida by a margin of 537 votes, thereby defeating Gore. [2000]

Elected to Apple Computer's Board of Directors. [March 2003]

Visiting Professor at UCLA, Fisk University, and Middle Tennessee State University. [2004]

He is an actor, known for An Inconvenient Truth (2006), An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017) and Bender's Big Score (2007).

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change (12 October 2007). [2007]