Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) served as the
45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under
President Bill Clinton. He is currently an author,
businessperson, and
American environmental activist who starred in the 2006 documentary
An Inconvenient Truth, which won an
Academy Award in 2007. Gore also wrote the book
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, which won a
Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in February 2009.
He was involved in American politics for 24 years, serving first in the
U.S. House of Representatives (1977–85) and later in the
U.S. Senate (1985–93) (representing
Tennessee) before becoming vice president. Gore was the
Democratic nominee for president in the
2000 presidential election. He won the
popular vote by approximately 500,000 votes, but ultimately lost the
electoral college to Republican candidate
George W. Bush when the
legal controversy over the
Florida election recount was eventually settled in the
U.S. Supreme Court by a 5–4 margin in favor of Bush—the only time in history the Court has determined the outcome of a presidential election.
Gore is the recipient of
a number of awards. He and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were jointly awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In addition, he received a
Primetime Emmy Award for
Current TV in 2007, a
Webby Award in 2005, and was named as a runner-up for
Time's 2007 Person of the Year.
He is currently the founder and chair of
Alliance for Climate Protection, the co-founder and chair of
Generation Investment Management, the co-founder and chair of
Current TV, a member of the Board of Directors of
Apple Inc., and a senior advisor to
Google. Gore is also a partner in the
venture capital firm,
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, heading that firm's climate change solutions group. In addition, he is on the faculty of
Middle Tennessee State University as a visiting professor, and was a visiting professor at
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism,
Fisk University, and the
University of California, Los Angeles.
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