Al Gore

Albert Arnold Al Gore Jr served as the 45th Vice President of the United States 19932001 under President Bill Clinton He was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2000 US presidential election Gore is currently an author businessman and environmental activist He was previously an elected official for 24 years representing Tennessee in the US House of Representatives 197785 and later in the US Senate 198593 and finally becoming Vice President in 1993 In the 2000 presidential election Gore won the popular vote by more than 500000 votes However he ultimately lost the Electoral College and the election to Republican George W Bush when the US Supreme Court settled the legal controversy over the Florida vote recount by ruling 54 in favor of Bush It was the only time in history that the Supreme Court may have determined the outcome of a presidential election He is a founder and current chair of the Alliance for Climate Protection the cofounder and chair of Generation Investment Management the cofounder and chair of Current TV 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 Caufield Byers heading that firms 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 Gore has received a number of awards including 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 Awardwinning 2007 documentary An Inconvenient Truth in 2006 In 2007 he was named a runnerup for Times 2007 Person of the Year