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Date: Friday, 16 Oct 1992 00:44:01 CDT
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                           TIPPER GORE

Mrs. Tipper Gore is the wife of Vice Presidential nominee and
Tennessee Senator Al Gore.  She is a well-known author and
advocate for children, and has also championed the issue of the
homeless.

Born Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson on August 19, 1948, Mrs. Gore grew
up in Arlington, Virginia; she was nicknamed Tipper by her
mother.  Mrs. Gore graduated from Boston University in 1970,
receiving a  Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology; she also
earned a Master's degree in Psychology from George Peabody
College in 1975.

Mrs. Gore serves as chair of Tennessee Voices for Children, a
coalition to promote the development of services for children and
youth with serious behavioral, emotional, substance abuse or
other mental health problems.  As a long-time champion of
children's causes, she has also been involved in Every Child by
Two and Free the Children.

Mrs. Gore currently is co-chair of the Child Mental Health
Interest Group, a non-partisan group of spouses of current and
former members of Congress and the Administration established by
the National Mental Health Association (NMHA).  The group's
objective is to increase support for children with mental and
emotional disorders and their families.  Earlier this year, NMHA
presented Mrs. Gore with its first Remember the Children Award
for her years of work on behalf of America's children.

In 1970 she married Al Gore from Carthage, Tennessee.  She worked
in the photography department of the Nashville Tennessean until
1976, when Senator Gore was elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives.

While in Washington, Mrs. Gore helped form the Congressional
Wives Task Force, serving as chairperson in 1978 and 1979.  One
of the Task Force's key activities during that time centered on
drawing attention to the levels of violence children were exposed
to on television.

In conjunction with the National Parent Teacher Association
(PTA), Mrs. Gore helped found the Parents Music Resource Center
(PMRC), which was established in 1985 as
a non-profit clearinghouse of information on popular music.  The
PMRC's major goal, which has been met, has been to encourage the
music industry to voluntarily notify consumers through a parental
advisory that a recording contains explicit violent or sexual
content.  The PMRC still serves as a reference center for parents
and consumers.

Mrs. Gore's book, Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society, was
published in 1987, and recently has been reissued.  The book is a
practical guide for parents and consumers concerned with
increasingly explicit material in today's entertainment for
children.

Mrs. Gore has been Chairperson of the Board of Families for the
Homeless, a non-partisan partnership of Congressional,
Administration and media families that aims to raise public
awareness about homeless people and their needs.  As a co-founder
of the group, Mrs. Gore worked with the National Mental Health
Association to produce a major photographic exhibit entitled
Homeless in America: A Photographic Project, depicting the plight
of the nation's homeless.  The exhibit opened at the Corcoran
Gallery in Washington, D.C. in 1988 and was on tour across the
country for two years.

The Gores have four children: Karenna (born August 6, 1973),
Kristin (June 5, 1977), Sarah (January 7, 1979) and Albert III
(October 19, 1982).


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