Profile
Albert Gore, Sr.
Politician
Male
Born
Dec 26, 1907
Hometown
Granville, Tennessee
Died
Dec 5, 1998
Death Place
Carthage, Tennessee
Political Party
United States Dem...
Nationality
American
Other Names
Albert Arnold Gore
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 and his wife Pauline LaFon Gore had two children: daughter Nancy LaFon Gore (born in 1938 and died… Read More
Family
Discover the family history of Albert Gore, Sr..
Albert Gore, Sr.
d.1998
parents
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Allen GoreFather, d.1956 -
Marge DennyMother
siblings
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Reginald GoreBrother
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Amanda GoreSister
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Laura Bettie GoreSister
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Grace GoreSister
children
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Nancy GoreDaughter, d.1984
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1907
Birth
Born on December 26, 1907.
TWENTIES
1936
28 Years Old
After serving as Tennessee Commissioner of Labor from 1936 to 1937 Gore was elected as a Democrat to the 76th Congress in 1938, re-elected to the two succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1939 until his resignation on December 4, 1944 to enter the U.S. Army.
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FORTIES
1948
40 Years Old
Gore and his wife Pauline LaFon Gore had two children: daughter Nancy LaFon Gore (born in 1938 and died of lung cancer in 1984) and a son Albert Gore Jr. in 1948.
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1951
43 Years Old
In 1951, Gore proposed in Congress that "something cataclysmic" be done by U.S. forces to end the Korean War: a radiation belt (created by nuclear weapons) dividing the Korean peninsula permanently into two.
Gore was not a candidate for re-election but was elected in 1952 to the U.S. Senate.
1956
48 Years Old
Gore was one of only three Democratic senators from the 11 former Confederate states who did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto opposing integration, the other two being Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (who was not asked to sign) and Gore's fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver, who refused to sign.
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FIFTIES
Gore was re-elected in 1958 and again in 1964, and served from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1971, after he lost reelection in 1970.
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1964
56 Years Old
In 1964 he faced an energetic Republican challenge from Dan Kuykendall, chairman of the Shelby County (Memphis) GOP, who ran a surprisingly strong race against him.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
By 1970, Gore was considered to be fairly vulnerable for a three-term incumbent Senator, as a result of his liberal positions on many issues such as the Vietnam War and Civil Rights.
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1972
64 Years Old
He became chairman of Island Creek Coal Co., Lexington, Kentucky, in 1972, and in his last years operated an antiques store in Carthage.
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1998
91 Years Old
Died on December 5, 1998.
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