Albert Gore senior

Albert Gore

Albert Arnold Gore senior (* 26 December 1907 in Granville , Jackson County , Tennessee , †  5. December 1998 in Carthage , Tennessee) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . He represented the state of Tennessee in both houses of Congress .

Life

After attending public schools, Albert Gore graduated from Murfreesboro State Teachers' College in 1932 . He attended law school until 1936 and was admitted to the bar in the same year. In 1938 he was elected a Democrat to the House of Representatives of the 76th Congress ; he was confirmed in each of the following two elections. A month before the end of his term in office, he resigned in December 1944 to join the US Army . But just a month later he was re-elected to the House of Representatives, where he served until January 1953. In the 1952 election he was elected to the US Senate , to which he then moved after his time in the House of Representatives. Since he was confirmed in each of the two subsequent elections, he held office from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1971. In the 1970 elections, he was defeated as the first Democratic Senator of the state of Tennessee in the person of Bill Brock to a challenger of the Republican Party . In the following years he continued to work as a lawyer and taught law at Vanderbilt University . He spent the rest of his life in Carthage until he died in 1998. He was buried in the Smith County Memorial Garden in Carthage.

Gore was a liberal politician all his life. In 1956, among other things, he was one of only three Democratic senators from the southern states who did not sign the so-called Southern Manifesto - a letter of protest against racial integration. He was the father of former US Vice President Al Gore .

Web links

• Albert Gore in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)