List of United States Political Families (G) - The Gores

The Gores

  • Albert A. Gore Sr. (1907–1998), U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1939–1944 and 1945–1953; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1953–1971.
    • Albert A. Gore Jr. (born 1948), U.S. Representative from Tennessee, 1977–1985; U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 1985–1993; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1988;, Vice President, 1993–2001; Democratic nominee for President, 2000; Nobel Peace Prize winner (2007); son of Albert Gore Sr.
    • Louise Gore, State Senator and gubernatorial candidate in Maryland and U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO, was a second cousin of Al Gore, Jr.
      • Deborah Gore Dean, former HUD official convicted in a kickback scandal, is a niece of Louise Gore.

Note: Writer Gore Vidal asserted that his grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, who served as U.S. senator from Oklahoma, was related to the Gores of Tennessee, but no such relationship has been proven.

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