Al Gore.

While appearing as a guest on The Dennis Miller Show in 1992, he was asked about having confessed to smoking marijuana. Miller followed the question up by asking, So, who rolls a tighter joint, you or Tipper? Gore chuckled and cleverly side-stepped, managing not to give a real answer. Tipper Gore, however, who was watching just out of camera range, was shocked and fumed, not at all pleased with the line of questioning.

Served as a Democratic US senator from Tennessee, January 3, 1985 to January 2, 1993 resigned; sworn in as vice president on January 20, 1993.

Graduated with honors from Harvard University, with a degree in government.

Ran for President and won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote 271-266. On election night several TV networks twice declared a winner in the state of Florida prematurely based on exit polls, before deciding the race was too close to call. It became clear that both candidates needed Florida’s electoral votes to win the presidency. A month of controversial court challenges and recounts followed, until the Supreme Court of the United States in Bush v. Gore voted 7-2 to declare the ongoing recount procedure unconstitutional because it feared that different standards would be used in different parts of the state. It then halted further recounts by voting 5-4 to ban further recounts using alternate procedures. George W. Bush was certified as the winner in Florida by a margin of 537 votes, thereby defeating Gore.

Worked as an investigative reporter at The Tennessean.

Attended Vanderbilt University Divinity School and Vanderbilt Law School.

Has two grandchildren by daughter Karenna Gore: grandson Wyatt born July 4, 1999 and granddaughter Anna born August 23, 2001.

Served in the US House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Tennessee, January 3, 1977 to January 3, 1985.

Wife, Tipper Gore, shares a birthday with his presidential running mate, former President Bill Clinton August 19.

Though he claims Tennessee as his home state, and was a congressman and senator from that state, he lived there for only four years of his entire life. He was born in Washington, DC his father, Albert Gore Sr., was a senator from Tennessee. He lived in DC until he graduated from high school, then moved to Harvard from 1965 to 1969. After graduating from Harvard, he was a journalist in the US Army in Vietnam from 1969 to 1971. The only years he lived in Tennessee were from 1971 to 1976, when he attended Vanderbilt Law School. He never practiced law, however, because a few months after graduation from law school in 1976 he was elected to the US House of Representatives. Later he was elected to the US Senate, where he served until January 1993.

A distant relative of Jessica Simpson, Ashlee Simpson, Rosemary Gore.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate, along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC, for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change on October 12, 2007.

His name anagrams into a one-word letter, i.e. a transposition. Re-arranging the letters in Al Gore yields either galore or gaoler. Other names with this property include Tom Cruise costumier, Condoleezza Rice as Condi Rice: coincider, Congressmen Ed Royce decoyer and Ed Pastor adopters, pastored, readopts, and commentator Eleanor Clift reflectional.

Scored 1350 on the SAT.

Born at 12:53pm EST.

From an article by Mountain Democrat columnist David Jacobsen: In a March 1999 interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gore said, During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. Taken in context, the sentence, despite some initial ambiguity, means that as a congressman Gore promoted the system we enjoy today, not that he could patent the science, though that’s how the quotation has been manipulated. Hence the disingenuous substitution of inventing for the actual language.

Won the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election but lost the electoral college vote. The next time that this would happen is in the 2016 presidential election, when his running mate Bill Clinton’s wife Hillary Clinton ran for president.

Is the first Democrat in the 21st century to win the popular vote but still lost the presidential election. Hillary Clinton was the second.

Is a huge fan of the Tennessee Titans football team.

Son of Pauline LaFon and Albert Gore Sr.

One of his eight times great-grandfathers, Domingo Madeiros, was a Portuguese man who came to Virginia in the 17th century, making Al Gore of 1/1024 Portuguese descent. His other ancestry includes English, some Scottish, and smaller amounts of German and Welsh.

Debated with presidential candidate Ross Perot on live TV.

Visiting Professor at UCLA, Fisk University, and Middle Tennessee State University.

He is often cited as a relative, most commonly cousin, of author Gore Vidal, as Gore is Vidal’s mother’s maiden name. However, the men share no Gore ancestors dating as far back to the early 1700s. This cousin connection was later confirmed to be a joke by Vidal himself.

He is the first and so far only Vice-President, and indeed the only President or Vice-President, born in Washington D.C.

Announced on CBS’s 60 Minutes that he will not be running for President in 2004.

Born to Albert Gore Sr., a U.S. Representative and Senator from Tennessee, and his wife Pauline LaFon Gore, he had one older sister, Nancy Gore Hunger, who died in 1984 from lung cancer.

On October 29, 2007, merited a place in Time magazine’s Special Issue Heroes of the Environment Leaders and Visionaries section with a tribute penned by Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club.

After serving only five months of what would ordinarily have been a twelve month tour in Vietnam as a journalist, Gore attended but did not graduate from Vanderbilt School of Divinity and attended but did not graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. Instead, he took the opportunity to run for the U.S. House of Representatives.