Senate in and He was inaugurated as the forty-fifth vice president of the United States on January 20, , and served eight years. He served as President of the Senate, a Cabinet member, a member of the National Security Council, and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives.
He is the author of the bestsellers Earth in the Balance and An Inconvenient Truth and is the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary. They have four children and three grandchildren. When he returned to the States in , Gore 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 , he enrolled at Vanderbilt's law school. Gore quit law school in March to run for the U. House from Tennessee. He was elected four times. In , Gore successfully ran for a seat in the U. In , Gore made a bid for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. He won five southern states on Super Tuesday but eventually lost to Dukakis.
Gore remained in the Senate until presidential candidate Clinton chose him as his running mate in They were elected into office that year and reelected in During his tenure, Gore worked to cut back on government bureaucracy. However, his image suffered when he was investigated by the Justice Department for his fundraising activities.
In his presidential campaign, Gore won the Democratic presidential nomination after facing down an early challenge from former Senator Bill Bradley. Gore chose Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut as his running mate, the first Orthodox Jew ever to be named on the ticket for a major national party.
Gore won the popular vote but conceded defeat to Republican George W. Bush after five weeks of complex legal arguments over the voting procedure in the presidential election. Long interested in issues of environmentalism and climate change, Gore devoted his energy and influence to advancing research in those areas after leaving office in His lecture tour on the dangers of global warming led to the publication of An Inconvenient Truth and a companion documentary, which won a pair of Academy Awards.
On December 10, , Gore accepted a Nobel Prize for work on global warming. In accepting the prize, he urged the world's biggest carbon emitters, China and the U. By Joseph Ax. Reuters - Former U. Trump has made unsubstantiated claims that voting by mail, a regular feature of U.
Gore said Americans must be prepared for vote tallies that take days to complete after Election Day, and that the candidate who appears to be winning in initial results may end up losing once all ballots are counted. The result remained in limbo until more than a month after Election Day, when the conservative-majority U.
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