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U.S. Vice President. Born Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., on March 31, 1948, in Washington, DC. His father, Albert Gore, Sr., a congressmen from Tennessee, served in the House of Representatives. His mother, Pauline (La Fon) Gore, was one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. At once a Washington thoroughbre ....

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.... to join the military helped allay the concerns of his father’s constituency about , Sr.’s opposition to the war. Gore served his time in Vietnam as an army reporter. When he returned to the States in 1971, he worked as a reporter at the Tennessean . When he was later moved to the city politics beat, Gore uncovered political and bribery cases that led to convictions. While at the Tennessean , Gore, a Baptist, also studied philosophy and phenomenology at Vanderbilt University. In 1974 he enrolled in Vanderbil ....