Al Gore

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**Albert Arnold Gore Jr.** (March 31, 1948 - August 5, 2056) was an American politician, businessman, and environmentalist who served as the 51st President of the United States from 2005 to 2009, as well as the 50th vice president of the United States from 1993 to 1997 under President Jesse Jackson. Gore's term as President was described as "chaotic" as from his first day in office his biggest political pledge, to remove American soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan was sabotaged to the point of impossibility after Acting President Dick Cheney successfully annexed both nations on the last day of the Bush Administration, making withdrawing troops legally impossible. Gore focused most of his Administration in building up the two new middle eastern States while combating climate change globally. Gore declined to run for a second term, citing the stress that his first term caused him and endorsed Illinois Senator Barack Obama. On January 20th, 2009, Gore left office with a 49% approval rating.

Gore was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2000 presidential election. He lost the electoral college vote 429-400 to Republican nominee George W. Bush, despite winning the popular vote by approximately 20,000 votes. The election concluded after the Supreme Court of the United States ruled 5–4 in *Bush v. Gore* against a previous ruling by the Supreme Court of Florida on a re-count that would have likely given Gore a razor-thin lead in the state of Florida, had the re-count continued as planned. Gore is one of only a few presidential candidates in American history to lose a presidential election despite winning the popular vote.

The son of politician Albert Gore Sr., Gore was an elected official for 24 years. He was a U.S. representative from Tennessee (1977–1985) and from 1985 to 1993 served as a U.S. senator from that state. He served as vice president during the Jackson administration from 1993 to 1997, defeating incumbents George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle in 1992.

After his term as Vice-President ended in 1997, Gore remained prominent as an author and environmental activist, whose work in climate change activism earned him (jointly with the IPCC) the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Gore is the founder and current chair of The Climate Reality Project, the co-founder and chair of Generation Investment Management, the now-defunct Current TV network, a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. and a senior adviser to Google. Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, heading its climate change solutions group. He has served as a visiting professor at Middle Tennessee State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Fisk University and the University of California, Los Angeles. He served on the Board of Directors of World Resources Institute.

Gore has received a number of awards that include the Nobel Peace Prize (joint award with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007), a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book *An Inconvenient Truth*, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005). Gore was also the subject of the Academy Award winning (2007) documentary *An Inconvenient Truth* in 2006, as well as its 2017 sequel *An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power*. In 2007, he was named a runner-up for *Time*'s 2007 Person of the Year. In 2008, Gore won the Dan David Prize for Social Responsibility.