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Al Gore

Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States. (link)
Born:

March 31, 1948 in Washington, D.C.
Public Offices Held:

United States Congress representing Tennessee’s 6th District: 1977-1985

United States Senate from Tennessee: 1985-1993

45th Vice President of the United States: 1993-2001
Political Party:

Democratic Party

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Albert Arnold “Al” Gore Jr. is a Democratic Party politician and environmentalist activist. He has served as a U.S. Representative, United States Senator from Tennessee, and the 45th Vice President of the United States. He was the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 2000 Presidential election, which he lost to then-Texas Governor George W. Bush. In political retirement he has become an environmentalist documentary film presenter, appearing in the lead role for the controversial documentaries An Inconvenient Truth and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power.

Early Life

Al Gore was born in Washington D.C. on March 31, 1948. His father, Albert Gore Sr., was a U.S. Representative at the time and later served in the U.S. Senate for 18 years. His mother, Pauline, was one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School.Snopes.Com. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp.

  • “Gore Launches Presidential Campaign – June 16, 1999”. 1999. Cnn.Com. http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/06/16/president.2000/gore/.
  • Seelye, Katharine. 2004. “THE 2004 CAMPAIGN: THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT; Gore Says Bush Betrayed The U.S. By Using 9/11 As A Reason For War In Iraq”. Nytimes.Com. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/09/us/2004-campaign-former-vice-president-gore-says-bush-betrayed-us-using-9-11-reason.html.
  • “Transcript: Former Vice President Gore’s Speech On Constitutional Issues”. 2006. Washingtonpost.Com. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011600779.html.
  • Mead, Walter Russell. 2007. “The Assault On Reason”. Foreign Affairs. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2007-09-01/assault-reason.
  • 2017. Skeptical Science. Accessed March 5. https://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-intermediate.htm.
  • SHABECOFF, Philip. 1990. “World’s Legislators Urge ‘Marshall Plan’ For The Environment”. Nytimes.Com. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/03/world/world-s-legislators-urge-marshall-plan-for-the-environment.html.
  • Veer, Pierre Guy. 2016. “8 Highly Inconvenient Facts For Al Gore 10 Years After His Infamous Movie”. Theblaze. http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/8-highly-inconvenient-facts-for-al-gore-10-years-after-his-infamous-movie/.
  • Leonard, Tom. 2008. “Al Gore’s Electricity Bill Goes Through The (Insulated) Roof”. Telegraph.Co.Uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2153179/Al-Gores-electricity-bill-goes-through-the-insulated-roof.html.
  • “The PETA Challenge to Al Gore Rolls On.” PETA. October 14, 2013. Accessed August 16, 2017. https://www.peta.org/blog/peta-challenge-al-gore-rolls/.
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