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Al Gore
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. born March 31, 1948, in Washington. Heis 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 spent his youth in Tennessee and graduated from Harvard. In 1969, he travelled to Vietnam where, despite contesting the war, he worked for five months as a military reporter.
After joining the House of Representatives, Gore held the first congressional hearings on climate change, and co-sponsored hearings on toxic waste and global warming. In 1990, Senator Gore chaired a three-day conference with lawmakers from more than 42 countries that sought to create a Global Marshall Plan, "under which industrial nations would help less developed countries grow economically while protecting the environment. The Senate opposed and unanimously (95-0) passed the Byrd-Hagel Resolution which affirmed the sense of the Senate that the United States should not
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Al Gore
(1948-)
Who Is Al Gore?
Al Gore served in both the House and Senate. He lost his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination to Michael Dukakis in 1988, before becoming President Bill Clinton's successful running mate in 1992 and again in 1996. Gore won the popular vote in his 2000 presidential campaign but eventually conceded defeat to Republican George W. Bush. Gore later devoted himself to environmental causes, winning a Nobel Prize for his efforts in 2007.
Early Life
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. was born on March 31, 1948, in Washington, D.C., where his father, Albert Gore Sr., was serving as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee. His father later became a U.S. senator (1953-71) and was considered a possible vice presidential nominee in 1956 and 1960. Gore's mother, Pauline LaFon Gore, was one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School.
Gore's childhood was divided between a hotel room the nation's capital during the school
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Environmental activism of Al Gore
Al Gore is an American politician and environmentalist. He was vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001, the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 2000, and the co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has been involved with the environmental activist movement for a number of decades and has had full participation since he left the vice-presidency in 2001.
Childhood
[edit]Gore stated in an interview for The New York Times that his interest in environmentalism began when he was a teenager:
As inom was entering high school, my mother was reading Silent Spring and the dinner table conversation was about pesticides and the environment ... The year I graduated from college the momentum was building for Earth Day. After that, as I was entering divinity school, the Club of Rome report came out and the limits to growth was a main issue.[1]