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Al Gore

Quick Facts

Date of birth: March 31, 1948
Nationality: American
Country of residence: United States

45th Vice President of the United States
Was a United States Senator from Tennessee in office from January 3, 1985-January 2, 1993
Attended Harvard University and Vanderbilt University
Fought in the United States Army from 1969-1971

Biography*

“Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and Chairman of Generation Investment Management, a firm that is focused on a new approach to Sustainable Investing.

Gore is also co-founder and Chairman of Current TV, an independently owned cable and satellite television network for young people based on viewer-created content and citizen journalism. A member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. Gore is also Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

He is the author of An Inconvenient Truth, a best-selling book on the threat of and solutions to global warming, and the subject of the movie of the same title, which has already become one of the top documentary films in history. In 2007, An Inconvenient Truth was awarded two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song.

Since his earliest days in the U. S. Congress 30 years ago, Gore has been the leading advocate for confronting the threat of global warming. His pioneering efforts were outlined in his best-selling book Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992). He led the Clinton-Gore Administration's efforts to protect the environment in a way that also strengthens the economy.

He was born on March 31, 1948, the son of former U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Sr. and Pauline Gore. Raised in Carthage, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., he received a degree in government with honors from Harvard University in 1969. After graduation, he volunteered for enlistment in the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War. Upon returning from Vietnam, he became an investigative reporter with the Tennessean in Nashville, where he also attended Vanderbilt University's Divinity School and then Law School.

Gore and his wife, Tipper, reside in Nashville, Tennessee. They have four children- Karenna, Kristin, Sarah, and Albert III; and three grandchildren: Wyatt Gore Schiff, Anna Hunger Schiff, and Oscar Aitcheson Schiff.”

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The Assault on Reason
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth, and Humanity
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work
Our Purpose: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007
The Path to Survival
Common Sense Government: Works Better and Costs Less

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