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- Birth nameAlbert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Former Vice President Al Gore is a founding partner and chairman of Generation Investment Management, and the founder and chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and a member of Apple Inc.'s board of directors.
Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1982 and to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990. He was inaugurated as the 45th vice president of the United States on January 20, 1993, and served eight years.
He is the author of the #1 New York Times best-sellers "An Inconvenient Truth" and "The Assault on Reason," and the best-sellers "Earth in the Balance," "Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis," "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change," and most recently, The New York Times best-seller "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power."
He is the subject of the documentary movie "An Inconvenient Truth," which won two Oscars in 2006 - and a second documentary in 2017, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power." In 2007, Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change."- IMDb Mini Biography By: Al Gore Official Site Bio
- SpouseTipper Gore(May 19, 1970 - present) (separated, 4 children)
- Children
- Parents
- Deep voice
- Heavy Southern accent
- His passion for protecting the environment and fighting climate change
- His roommates at Harvard were actor Tommy Lee Jones and Erich Segal.
- Served in Vietnam for nearly five months as an army journalist.
- Is fluent in Spanish.
- Was a member of the Harvard Debating Team.
- Elected to Apple Computer's Board of Directors.
- Dr. Laura Schlessinger's words make me sick to my stomach.
- [on TV show "Nightline", 5/5/86, regarding the unsuccessful launch of an unmanned rocket shortly after the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion] To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
- I work very hard to get in touch with my feminine side.
- You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.
- A zebra does not change its spots.
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