Happy birthday to the 45th Vice President of the United States.
Born Mach 31st, 1948 in Washington D.C.
"Remember America, I gave you the Internet and I can take it away." —the #9 item on the "Top 10 Rejected Gore-Lieberman Campaign Slogans," read by Al Gore on the "Late Show with David Letterman"
Bio Highlights:
- Son of Albert Gore Sr and Pauline LaFon Gore.
- Sister: Nancy LaFon Gore (died 1984)
- Attended school at: St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. from 1956 to 1965
- College: Harvard - Majored in Government and graduated in 1969
- Army: 1970 - '71
- Married: Mary Elizabeth "Tipper" Aitcheson - 1970 (separated 2010)
- Children: Karenna (1973), Kristin Carlson Gore (1977), Sarah LaFon Gore (1979), and Albert Gore III (1982)
- Attended Vanderbilt University Law School studying to be a lawyer but dropped out in 1976 to run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Served in the House from 1976 to 1984 and then the Senate from 1984 to 1993.
- Ran for President - 1988
- Wrote Earth in the Balance - 1992
- Vice President 1993 to 2001
- Ran for President - 2000
- Nobel Peace Prize - 2007
- Emmy Award - 2007
- Academy Award for Best Documentary - 2007