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U.S. Vice President. Born Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., on March 31, 1948, in Washington, DC. His father, Albert Gore, Sr., a congressmen from Tennessee, served in the House of Representatives. His mother, Pauline (La Fon) Gore, was one of the first women to graduate f ....

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.... helped allay the concerns of his father’s constituency about , Sr.’s opposition to the war. Gore served his time in Vietnam as an army reporter. When he returned to the States in 1971, he worked as a reporter at the Tennessean . When he was later moved to the city politics beat, Gore uncovered political and bribery cases that led to convictions. While at the Tennessean , Gore, a Baptist, also studied philosophy and phenomenology at Vanderbilt University. In 1974 he enrolled in Vanderbilt’s law school. Just two years later, he began to campaign for the Democratic nomination for Tennessee’s Fourth District congressional seat. When he won the no ....