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Al Gore was the 45thvicepresident of theUnited States(1993–2001) in theDemocraticadministration of PresidentBill Clinton. In the 2000 presidentialelection, one of the most controversial elections in American history, Gore won the nationwide popular vote overGeorge W. Bushby more than 500,000 votes but narrowly lost in theelectoral college, 271–266—the first inversion of the electoral and popular vote since 1888. Should the United States use the Electoral College in presidential elections so that candidates such as George W. Bush can win over popular vote winners like Al Gore is heavily debated. Some say the Electoral College was created to protect the voices of the minority from being overwhelmed by the will of the majority and ensures that that all parts of the country are involved in selecting the president. Others say the Electoral College is rooted in slavery and racism and gives too much power to swing states and allows the presidential election to be decided by a handful of states. For more on the Electoral College debate, visit Al Gore, in full Albert Arnold Gore, Jr., (born March 31, 1948, Washington, Gore was the son of a Democratic congressman and senator from The Tennessean, a newspaper based in Nashville, Tennessee. While working (1971–76) for that paper, Gore announced his candidacy for the Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992). Campaign finance reform also became a prominent issue following allegations that Gore conducted illegal fund-rais...

HBO Max's true crime-inspired drama series Love & Death dramatizes the real life case of Candy Montgomery, the housewife from Wylie, Texas who killed her friend, Betty Gore, in 1980 following an affair with Betty's husband Allan. In the show, which closely follows the timeline of real events, Candy (Elizabeth Olsen) met Allan (Jesse Plemons) at a volleyball game hosted by their church, the Methodist Church of Lucas, which both attended with their respective spouses. Candy was immediately attracted to Allan, and began to pursue him romantically, even asking him at one point: "would you be interested in having an affair?" After declining her advances for a while, Allan eventually did begin a relationship with Candy. According to Allan's testimony during the trial, they were seeing each other for 10 months, meeting up at a hotel in Plano, Texas every couple of weeks, before mutually deciding to end the affair in December 1979. The murder of Betty Gore took place after the relationship had been cut off: Candy visited the Gore house and was confronted by Betty, who suspected that she and Allan were sleeping together. Candy testified that Betty attacked her with an ax, and that she was acting in self-defense when she killed her. On the day that Candy killed Betty, Allan was away on a business trip. Jesse Plemons as Allan Gore in Love & Death. JAKE GILES NETTER Allan remarried quickly The Dallas Morning News reported that Allan Gore moved away from Wylie and remarried very shortl...

Share this • Share on Facebook: Al Gore – Facts Share this content on Facebook Facebook • Tweet: Al Gore – Facts Share this content on Twitter Twitter • Share on LinkedIn: Al Gore – Facts Share this content on LinkedIn LinkedIn • Share via Email: Al Gore – Facts Share this content via Email Email this page Al Gore Facts Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 Born: 31 March 1948, Washington, D.C., USA Residence at the time of the award: USA Prize motivation: “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change” Prize share: 1/2 An Inconvenient Truth The Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 was awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former US Vice President Al Gore for their efforts to obtain and disseminate information about the climate challenge. In Gore's case, certainly, the award was grounded in his tireless campaign to put the climate crisis on the political agenda. As early as in 1992, the year when he was elected Vice President of the United States, Gore was making himself known as a highly environment-conscious politician, among other things through his book Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose, in which he took up the problem of global warming. Having lost the presidential election in 2000, he decided to use his influence to increase public awareness in the United States and other countries...

Al Gore The latest on Al Gore. A Democrat, Gore served as the 45th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001 in the administration of former President Bill Clinton. He narrowly lost the presidency in 2001 in a close election against Republican George W. Bush. Gore previously represented Tennessee in the U.S. Senate from 1985 to 1993 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1985. He is the son of former Tennessee U.S. Senator Albert Gore Sr. Gore was the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his environmental activism.