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31 March 1948, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

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While appearing as a guest on "Dennis Miller Show, The" (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.
Was actor Tommy Lee Joness room-mate at Harvard.
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Graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1969, with a degree in government.
Served in Vietnam for nearly five months as an army journalist.
Worked as an investigative reporter at The Tennessean.
Attended Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Vanderbilt Law School.
Children: Karenna (born August 6, 1973), Kristin Gore (born June 5, 1977), Sarah (born January 7, 1979), and Albert III (born October 19, 1982).
Is among the few known persons whose names anagram into one-word letters, i.e. transpositions. Re-arranging the letters in "Al Gore" yields either "galore" or "gaoler". Others names with this property include Tom Cruise ("costumier"), Condi Rice ("coincider"), Congressmen Ed Royce ("decoyer"), and Ed Pastor ("adopters", "pastored", "readopts") and commentator Eleanor Clift ("reflectional").
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."
Portrayed by Darrell Hammond on "Saturday Night Live" (1975).
Is fluent in Spanish.
Scored 1350 on the SAT.
Is left-handed.
Has two grandchildren by daughter Karenna: grandson Wyatt born July 4, 1999 and grandaughter Anna born August 23, 2001.
December 2002: Announced on CBS's "60 Minutes" (1968) that he will not be running for President in 2004.
U.S. Representative from Tennessee (1977-85).
U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1985-93).
Is a huge fan of the Tennessee Titans football team.
Vice President of The United States (1993-2001).
Wife, Tipper Gore, shares a birthday with his presidential running mate, former President Bill Clinton (August 19).
Receiving The Webby Lifetime Achievement Award for taking the initiative to help create the Internet.
Son of Albert Gore Sr.
Though he claims Tennessee as his home state, and was a Congressman and Senator from that state, he only lived there for 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 1969-71. The only years he lived in Tennessee were from 1971-76, 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 Senate, and served until 1993 when he was elected Vice President.
His 7th grandmother through male line was a paternal granddaughter of a Portuguese man who came to Virginia in the XVIIth century.
A distant relative of Jessica Simpson and Ashlee Simpson.
Ran for President in 2000, and won the popular vote, but lost the electorial vote 271 to 266. On election night, the news media 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. Bush was certified as the winner in Florida by a margin of 537 votes, thereby defeating Gore.
Was a member of the Harvard Debating Team.
Debated with presidential candidate Ross Perot on live TV.
Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, sharing the prize with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Had he been the actual recipient of an Academy Award for the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," in which he starred, he would have become the first person other than George Bernard Shaw to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar.
Appeared as himself in numerous episodes of "Futurama" (1999).
Drives only hybrid vehicles.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2007, 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).
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).