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American politician from Tennessee (–)

Albert Gore
Official portrait, c.&#;
In office January 3, &#;– January 3,
Preceded by	Kenneth McKellar
Succeeded by	Bill Brock
In office January 3, &#;– December 4,
Preceded by	John R. Mitchell
Succeeded by	Himself
In office January 3, &#;– January 3,
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	Joe L. Evins
Born	Albert Arnold Gore ()December 26, Granville, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	December 5, () (aged&#;90) Carthage, Tennessee, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse
Children
Alma mater	Middle Tennessee State University (BA) Nashville School of Law (LLB)
Allegiance	&#;United States
Branch/service	&#;United States Army
Years&#;of service	–
Rank	Private
Unit	Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories
Battles/wars	World War II

Albert Arnold Gore (December 26, &#;– December 5, ) was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Tennessee from to A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a U.S.

representative from the state's 4th congressional district from to He was the father of Al Gore, who served as the 45th vice president of the United States from until , and held Tennessee's other U.S. Senate seat from to A native of Granville, Tennessee, Gore graduated from Middle Tennessee State Teachers College and taught school. From to he was superintendent of schools for Smith County.

He attended the Nashville Y.M.C.A. Night Law School, now the Nashville School of Law, from which he graduated in

He was admitted to the bar later that year, and also accepted appointment as Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Labor, a position he held until In , Gore was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee's 4th congressional district.

He was twice re-elected, and served from until resigning in December During World War II, Gore briefly served in the United States Army as part of a program that enabled members of Congress to join the military incognito to obtain firsthand information on training, readiness, and treatment of service members. He served from December to March , when he was discharged and took the House seat to which he had been elected again in November He was thereafter re-elected in , , and , and served from until In , Gore was a successful candidate for the U.S.

Senate. He was reelected in and , and served from January to January Gore was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in

In the Senate, Gore championed the Federal Aid Highway Act of In , he also opposed the segregationist Southern Manifesto, but he voted against the Civil Rights Act of Gore reversed course a year later and supported the Voting Rights Act of During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, Gore backed most of Johnson's Great Society programs.

Gore's defeat was blamed in part on his opposition to continuing U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. After leaving the Senate, Gore practiced and taught law at Vanderbilt University. He later served as a vice president of the Occidental Petroleum Company and was a member of its board of directors. Gore also served on the boards of directors of several other companies and operated a farm on which he bred Angus cattle.

Gore died in Carthage, Tennessee on December 5, , and was buried at Carthage's Smith County Memorial Gardens.

Early years

Gore was born in Granville, Tennessee in , the third of five children of Margie Bettie (née Denny) and Allen Arnold Gore.^[1][2] Gore's ancestors included Anglo-Irish immigrants who first settled in Virginia in the midth century and moved to Tennessee after the American Revolutionary War.^{[3][fn 1]} As teenagers, Allen Gore and Cordell Hull were friends.^[5]

Gore studied at Middle Tennessee State Teachers College, and taught school in Overton and Smith Counties from to He first sought elective public office at age 23, when he ran unsuccessfully for superintendent of schools in Smith County.

A year later, he was appointed to the position following the death of the incumbent.^[6] Gore graduated from the Nashville Y.M.C.A. Night Law School, now the Nashville School of Law, in and attained admission to the bar.

Congressional career

After serving as Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Labor from to , Gore was elected as a Democrat to the 76th Congress in , re-elected to the two succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, , until he resigned on December 4, , to enter the U.S.

Army.^[7]

Military service

Gore was one of several members of Congress who joined the military incognito for short tours, in order to observe training and combat and provide first-hand reports to the U.S. House and Senate.^[8] He completed basic training at Fort Meade, Maryland, after which he was assigned to the Allied Military Government for Occupied Territories in Germany as a prosecutor in one of the military government courts.^[9] Gore served as a private and was discharged in March so he could take the seat in the U.S.

House to which he had been reelected in November ^[10][11]

Gore was re-elected to the 79th and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, , to January 3, ). In , Gore proposed in Congress that "something cataclysmic" be done by U.S. forces to end the Korean War: a radiation belt (created by nuclear weapons) dividing the Korean peninsula permanently into two.^[12]

U.S.

Senate

In , Gore was not a candidate for House re-election but was elected to the U.S. Senate. In his election, he defeated six-term incumbent Kenneth McKellar in the Democratic primary. Gore's victory is widely regarded as a major turning point in Tennessee political history, largely marking the end of statewide influence for E.

H. Crump, the Memphispolitical boss. During his first term, Gore was instrumental in sponsoring and enacting the legislation creating the Interstate Highway System. Gore was re-elected in and again in , but lost reelection in

Gore was one of only three Democratic senators from the former Confederate states who did not sign the Southern Manifesto opposing integration, the others being Senate Majority LeaderLyndon B.

Johnson of Texas (who was not asked to sign), and Tennessee's other Senator, Estes Kefauver.

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South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond tried to get Gore to sign the Manifesto, but Gore refused.^[13][14] Gore voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of and ,^[15][16] as well as the Voting Rights Act of and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court.^[17][18][19] Gore voted in favor of the initial Senate resolution on the Civil Rights Act of on August 7, ,^[20] but did not vote on House amendment to bill on August 29, ^[21] Gore also did not vote on the 24th Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution,^[22] and Gore voted against the Civil Rights Act of ^[23]

Gore easily won renomination in over former governor Prentice Cooper. At the time, the Democratic nomination was still considered tantamount to election in Tennessee, since the Republican Party was largely nonexistent in many parts of the state.

In , he faced an energetic general election challenge from Dan Kuykendall, chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party, who ran a surprisingly strong race against him. While Gore won, Kuykendall held him to only 53 percent of the vote, in spite of President Lyndon Johnson's landslide victory in the concurrent presidential election.

campaign and defeat

Main article: United States Senate election in Tennessee

By , Gore was considered to be fairly vulnerable for a three-term incumbent Senator, as a result of his liberal positions on many issues such as the Vietnam War (which he opposed)^[24] and civil rights.

This was especially risky, electorally, as at the time the Republican Party was becoming more competitive in Tennessee. He faced a spirited primary challenge, predominantly from former Nashvillenews anchor Hudley Crockett, who used his broadcasting skills to considerable advantage and generally attempted to run to Gore's right.

Gore fended off this primary challenge, but he was ultimately unseated in the general election by Republican Congressman Bill Brock. Gore was one of the key targets in the Nixon/Agnew "Southern strategy." He had earned Nixon's ire the year before when he criticized the administration's "do-nothing" policy toward inflation.

In a memo^[25] to senior advisor Bryce Harlow, Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield relayed the President's desire that Gore be "blistered" for his comment.^[26]Spiro T. Agnew traveled to Tennessee in to mock Gore as the "Southern regional chairman of the Eastern Liberal Establishment".

Other prominent issues in the race included Gore's vote against Everett Dirksen's amendment on prayer in public schools, and his opposition to appointing Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court. Brock won the election by a 51% to 47% margin.^{[citation needed]}

Political legacy

In , he gained national attention after his disapproval of the Southern Manifesto.

Gore voted against the Civil Rights Act of , in fact filibustering against it, although he supported the Voting Rights Act of Gore was a vocal champion of the Federal Aid Highway Act of , which secured creation of interstate highways. Later, he backed the Great Society array of programs initiated by President Johnson's administration, and introduced a bill with a Medicare blueprint.

In international politics, he moved from proposing in the House to employ nuclear weapons for establishing a radioactive demilitarized zone during the Korean War, to voting for the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and speaking against the Vietnam War, pivots that likely contributed to the loss of his Senate seat in ^[27]

Personal life

On May 15, , in Tompkinsville, KY, Gore married lawyer Pauline LaFon (–), the daughter of Maude (née Gatlin) and Walter L.

LaFon.^{[citation needed]} Together, they had two children: Nancy LaFon Gore (–)^{[citation needed]} and Albert Gore Jr. (born ), who followed in his father's political footsteps by representing Tennessee as a U.S. Representative and as a Senator, and later served as Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton.

After leaving Congress, Gore Sr. resumed the practice of law and also taught law at Vanderbilt University.^{[citation needed]} He continued to represent Occidental Petroleum, where he became vice president and member of the board of directors.^{[citation needed]} Gore became chairman of Island Creek Coal Co., Lexington, Kentucky, an Occidental subsidiary, in , and in his last years operated Gore Antique Mall, an antiques store in Carthage.^[28] He lived to see his son Albert Gore Jr.

become Vice President of the United States. Gore Sr. died on December 5, , at the age of 90 and is buried in Smith County Memorial Gardens in Carthage.^{[citation needed]} The Interstate Highway System in Tennessee is designated the "Senator Albert Gore Sr. Memorial Interstate System" in his honor.^[6][29]

Notes

References

&#;This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Bibliography

External links

• United States Congress. "Albert Gore Sr. (id: G)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Washington Post "Political Junkie" column: answers questions about Gore's civil rights record
• "Casting a Long Shadow", by David M.

  Shribman: The Boston Globe article describing congressional races of Al Gore Sr. and George H. W. Bush.

• ""Sons", by Nicholas Lemann". Archived from the original on April 14, Retrieved April 26, : article on Albert A. Gore Jr., and George W. Bush, including some description of the former's relationship with his father.
• "FBI files on Albert Gore Sr".

  Archived from the original on October 8, Retrieved January 22, : CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

• "The Life of Albert Gore Sr". Archived from the original on June 11, Retrieved August 6,
• Oral History Interviews with Albert Gore (Part 1, Part 2) from Oral Histories of the American South
• Appearances on C-SPAN