Al Gore

 

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Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993-2001), under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2000 U. S. presidential election. Gore is currently an author, businessman, and environmental activist. He was previously an elected official for 24 years, representing Tennessee in the U. S. House of Representatives (1977-85), and later in the U. S. Senate (1985-93), and finally becoming Vice President in 1993. In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote by more than 500,000 votes. However, he ultimately lost the Electoral College, and the election, to Republican George W. Bush when the U. S. Supreme Court settled the legal controversy over the Florida vote recount by ruling 5-4 in favor of Bush. It was the only time in history that the Supreme Court may have determined the outcome of a presidential election

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Al Gore

Born 1948-03-31 (76 years ago) in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Height 187 centimeters.

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Awards
Award Ceremony Year Awarded for
NAACP Image Award – Chairman's Award 40th NAACP Image Awards 2009
International Emmy Award for Founders 2007 International Emmy Awards 2007
Quill Award for History/current events/politics (The Assault on Reason) 2007 The Assault on Reason
Nobel Peace Prize 2007 Nobel Peace Prize 2007
Quill Award for History/current events/politics (An Inconvenient Truth) 2006 En obekväm sanning
Nominated for awards
Award Ceremony Year Nominated for
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction (Our Choice) 41st NAACP Image Awards 2010 Our Choice
Relationships
Name From To Relationship type
Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson Gore(Gifta: 1970-05-19–2010-06) 1970-05-19 2010-06 Gifta
Children

Al Gore III, Sarah Gore, Kristin Gore, Karenna Gore Schiff

Parents

Pauline LaFon Gore, Albert Gore, Sr.

Sibling

Nancy Gore

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Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the 45th Vice President of the United States (1993-2001), under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.

Gore is currently an author, businessman, and environmental activist. He was previously an elected official for 24 years, representing Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977-85), and later in the U.S. Senate (1985-93), and finally becoming Vice President in 1993. In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote by more than 500,000 votes. However, he ultimately lost the Electoral College, and the election, to Republican George W. Bush when the U.S. Supreme Court settled the legal controversy over the Florida vote recount by ruling 5-4 in favor of Bush. It was the only time in history that the Supreme Court may have determined the outcome of a presidential election.

He is a founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management, the co-founder and chair of Current TV, 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 Caufield & Byers, heading that firm's 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.

Gore has received a number of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) (2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) 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. In 2007 he was named a runner-up for Time's 2007 Person of the Year.

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