Albert Gore , Jr. was born in Washington , D.C. , the second of two children of Albert Gore , Sr. , a U.S. Representative who later served as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee , and Pauline ( LaFon ) Gore , one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School .
His mother , Pauline LaFon Gore is one of the first women to have graduated from Vanderbilt University Law School .