Al Gore

"Albert Gore" redirects here. For his father, see Albert Gore Sr. For other uses, see Al Gore (disambiguation).

Al Gore
Official portrait, 1994
45th Vice President of the United States
In office
January 20, 1993 – January 20, 2001
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byDan Quayle
Succeeded byDick Cheney
United States Senator
from Tennessee
In office
January 3, 1985 – January 2, 1993
Preceded byHoward Baker
Succeeded byHarlan Mathews
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Tennessee
In office
January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1985
Preceded byJoe L. Evins
Succeeded byBart Gordon
Constituency
Personal details
Born
Albert Arnold Gore Jr.

(1948-03-31) March 31, 1948 (age 76)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
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(m. 1970; sep. 2010)​
Children4, including Karenna and Kristin
Parents
Education
Occupation
  • Politician
  • environmentalist
  • businessman
  • journalist
  • author
Civilian awardsList of awards and honors
Signature
Websitewww.algore.com Edit this at Wikidata
Military service
Branch/serviceUnited States Army
Years of service1969–1971
RankSpecialist 4
Unit20th Engineer Brigade
Battles/warsVietnam War
Military awards
Al Gore's voice
Al Gore speaking during remarks on submitting the 1999 budget
Recorded February 2, 1998
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Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He previously served as a United States Senator from 1985 to 1993 and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1985, in which he represented Tennessee. Gore was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2000 presidential election, which he lost to George W. Bush despite winning the popular vote.[a]

The son of politician Albert Gore Sr., Gore was an elected official for 24 years. He was a U.S. representative from Tennessee (1977–1985) and, from 1985 to 1993, served as a U.S. senator for the state. He served as vice president during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001, defeating then-incumbents George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle in 1992, and Bob Dole and Jack Kemp in 1996. As of 2024, Gore's 1990 re-election remains the last time Democrats won a Senate election in Tennessee.

Gore was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2000 presidential election – in which he lost the electoral college vote by five electoral votes to Republican nominee George W. Bush, despite winning the popular vote by 543,895 votes. The election concluded after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5–4 in Bush v. Gore against a previous ruling by the Supreme Court of Florida on a re-count that would have likely given Gore a razor-thin lead in the state of Florida, had the re-count continued as planned. He is one of five presidential candidates in American history to lose a presidential election despite winning the popular vote.

After his vice presidency ended in 2001, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him (jointly with the IPCC) the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Gore is the founder and current chair of The Climate Reality Project, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management, the now-defunct Current TV network, a former member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. and a senior adviser to Google.[2] Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, heading its climate change solutions group.[3][4] He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University and the University of California, Los Angeles.[2][5][6][7] He served on the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute.[8]

Gore has received a number of awards that include the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007), a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award winning (2007) documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, as well as its 2017 sequel An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. In 2007, he was named a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year.[9] In 2008, Gore won the Dan David Prize for Social Responsibility,[10][11] and in 2024, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden.[12]

  1. ^ Wolter, Kirk; Jergovic, Diana; Moore, Whitney; Murphy, Joe; O'Muircheartaigh, Colm (February 2003). "Statistical Practice: Reliability of the Uncertified Ballots in the 2000 Presidential Election in Florida" (PDF). The American Statistician. 57 (1). American Statistical Association: 1–14. doi:10.1198/0003130031144. ISSN 0003-1305. JSTOR 3087271. S2CID 120778921. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 18, 2016. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Gore, Al. "Al's Bio". AlGore.com. Archived from the original on June 23, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2019.
  3. ^ Coile, Zachary (November 13, 2007). "Gore joins Valley's Kleiner Perkins to push green business". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on August 23, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  4. ^ "Partner bio at Kleiner Perkins". Kleiner Perkins. Archived from the original on July 22, 2010. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  5. ^ Office of Public Affairs (January 25, 2001). "Former Vice President Al Gore to Teach at Columbia's School of Journalism". Columbia News: the Public Affairs and Record Home Page. Columbia University. Archived from the original on May 13, 2011. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  6. ^ "Al Gore To Teach At Fisk University—Brief Article". Jet. February 19, 2001. Archived from the original on January 26, 2008. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  7. ^ Lee, Cynthia; Ko, Amy (2001). "Training the Next Community Builders:Gore taps faculty expertise". UCLA Today. Archived from the original on May 16, 2011. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
  8. ^ "Al Gore". World Resources Institute. Archived from the original on April 13, 2021. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
  9. ^ Bono (December 19, 2007). "Time Person of the Year 2007 Runners-Up: Al Gore". Time. Archived from the original on December 21, 2007. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
  10. ^ "Al Gore, Israeli author Amos Oz win Dan David Prize". Haaretz. Archived from the original on April 23, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
  11. ^ "Al Gore, Amos Oz share Dan David Prizes". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. February 12, 2008. Archived from the original on December 19, 2020. Retrieved November 26, 2020.
  12. ^ Williams, Michael (May 3, 2024). "Biden presents Medal of Freedom to key political allies, civil rights leaders, celebrities and politicians". CNN. Retrieved May 3, 2024.


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