Al Gore- by Marisela LaMadrid
- 45th Vice President of the United States (1993–2001)
- under President Bill Clinton.
- He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President and lost the 2000 U.S. presidential election despite winning the popular vote.
- He was a Congressman from Tennessee from 1977–85 and from 1985–93 served as one of the state's Senators.
- Gore is the founder and current chair:
- of the Alliance for Climate Protection
- of Generation Investment Management
- of the now-defunct Current TV network
- a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc
- a senior adviser to Google.
- In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush.
- A controversial election dispute over a vote recount in Florida was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled 5-4 in favor of Bush.
- Gore has received a number of awards including the Nobel Peace Prize (2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth.
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