Al Gore
AL GORE JR.

Al Gore Jr. was a U. S. Congressman, then a U.S. Senator, and then the vice president of the United States from 1993 until 2001 (under President Bill Clinton).
His father Al Gore Sr. was also a U. S. Senator from Tennessee, and because of that the younger Gore spent most of his childhood in Washington, D.C. (although he did spend summers of the family farm in Carthage). He went to Harvard University, then served in the U.S. military in Vietnam, then spent a few years as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean newspaper.
In 1976 Gore ran for the U.S. House of Representatives and won, and was later re-elected three times. He successfully ran for Senate in 1984 (although at that time he campaigned under the name Albert Gore Jr. -- not Al Gore).
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Gore ran for president in 1988 but lost the Democratic nomination to Michael Dukakis. Then, in 1992, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton chose him as his running mate, later winning the election.
Among Gore's achievements as vice president:
* He worked hard for environmental protection
* He lobbied hard for the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA), and may have paved the the way for its passage when he debated Ross Perot over it on national television one night
* He instituted a federal program that called for all schools to be wired to the Internet. Tennessee later took advantage of that program and became one of the first states in the country to put all of its public schools on the Internet.
In 2000, Gore ran for president again and lost to Texas Governor George W. Bush in the closest presidential election in American history. After that, he moved back to Nashville, where he now lives with his wife Tipper.

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