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  1. Jan 26, 2014 · Sen. Albert Gore Sr. addresses a crowd of supporters in Nashville, Tenn. on Oct. 20, 1970. With Gore Sr., from left, are Al Gore Jr., Tipper Gore, Pauline Gore, Nancy ...

  2. The contributions Albert Gore made to Tennessee and the United States are numerous. A great supporter of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Gore was one of the Senators responsible for exposing the Dixon-Yates controversy, thus preventing the sale of TVA to private investors. Albert Gore authored the first Medicare bill, and led in the

  3. Apr 29, 2022 · Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Sr. was an American politician, serving as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party from Tennessee. Gore was born in Granville, Tennessee, the third of five children of Allen Gore and Maggie Denny Gore. Gore's patrilineal ancestors were Scots-Irish who first settled in Virginia in the mid 17th ...

  4. The son of Tennessee senator Albert Gore, Sr., Gore was born in Washington, D.C., in 1948, and as a youth attended schools in Tennessee and Washington. After graduating from Harvard University in 1969, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and spent six months as a journalist in Vietnam. Gore attended divinity school and later law school at Vanderbilt ...

  5. Oct 8, 2017 · Albert Arnold Gore Sr. Albert A. Gore Sr., congressman and U.S. senator, was born in Jackson County on December 26, 1907, the son of Allen and Margie Denny Gore. Raised on a farm, Gore witnessed the loss of his family's entire financial resources during the Great Depression, when three local banks collapsed during a single week.

  6. Dec 7, 1998 · As a mark of respect for the memory of Albert Gore, Sr., former Senator from the State of Tennessee, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military ...

  7. Albert Arnold Gore Sr. was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1953 to 1971. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a U.S. Representative from the state's 4th congressional district from 1939 to 1953. He was the father of Al Gore, who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 until 2001, and held Tennessee's ...