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Albert Arnold Gore Jr. 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.

Gore was the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election, losing to George W. Bush in a very close race after a Florida recount. Gore was an elected official for 24 years.

He was a representative from Tennessee (1977–1985) and from 1985 to 1993 served as a senator from that state.

He served as vice president during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001, defeating incumbents George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle in 1992, and Bob Dole and Jack Kemp in 1996.

The 2000 presidential election was one of the closest presidential races in history.

Gore and his running mate Joe Lieberman won the popular vote, but after a controversial election dispute over a Florida recount, he lost the election to Republican opponent George W. Bush in the Electoral College.

After his term as vice-president ended in 2001, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him 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 member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc., and a senior adviser to Google.

Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, heading its climate change solutions group.

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.

He served on the Board of Directors of the World Resources Institute.

Gore has received several awards including the Nobel Peace Prize for his book An Inconvenient Truth, 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. In 2008, Gore won the Dan David Prize for Social Responsibility.

Gore was born on March 31, 1948, in Washington, D.C., the second of two children of Albert Gore Sr., a U.S. Representative who later served for 18 years as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee, and Pauline (LaFon) Gore, one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School.

Gore is a descendant of Scots-Irish immigrants who first settled in Virginia in the mid-17th-century and moved to Tennessee after the Revolutionary War.

His older sister Nancy LaFon Gore died of lung cancer.

During the school year, he lived with his family in The Fairfax Hotel in the Embassy Row section in Washington D.C.

During the summer months, he worked on the family farm in Carthage, Tennessee where the Gores grew tobacco and hay and raised cattle.

Gore attended St. Albans School, an independent college preparatory day and boarding school for boys in Washington, D.C. from 1956 to 1965, a prestigious feeder school for the Ivy League.

He was the captain of the football team, threw discus for the track and field team, and participated in basketball, art, and government.

He graduated 25th in a class of 51, applied to one college, Harvard University, and was accepted.

WebSite: Al Gore

Party: Democratic Party

Aunts: Grace Gore, Laura Bettie Gore, Amanda Gore

Organizations founded: The Climate Reality Project, Generation Investment Management, GLOBE Program, Current TV, Chicago Climate Exchange, Alliance for Climate Protection

Questions About Al Gore

Who is Al Gore and why is he important?

After his term as vice-president 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.

What made Al Gore famous?

Al Gore is a United States politician and environmentalist. He is the former Vice President of the United States (1993–2001), the 2000 Democratic Party presidential nominee, and the co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

What did Al Gore do in 2000?

On November 7, 2000, projections indicated that Gore’s opponent, then-Governor of Texas George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, had narrowly won the election. Gore won the national popular vote but lost the Electoral College vote after a legal battle over disputed vote counts in the state of Florida.

How many times did Al Gore run for president?

Al Gore, the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001) and U.S. senator from Tennessee (1985–1993), has unsuccessfully run for president twice: Al Gore 1988 presidential campaign. Al Gore 2000 presidential campaign.

Why did Al Gore win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Al Gore (pictured) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ‘for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.’

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