The Gore Family Bios

(NOTE: The Clinton/Gore campaign would not release the birth dates of all family members if an age is not indicated in a Bio, it was not available through alternate sources)

Tipper and Al Gore planned a large family, in part because Tipper was an only child and Al's sister was ten years his senior. In an interview with Redbook in March of 1994, Tipper said, "I always wanted six children." Tipper tries to spend no more than three days a week at her office in the Old Executive Office Building and is anxious about spending more than a day a week out of town. Al Gore wakes the children in the morning and checks on them when he comes home at night. When they are at home, the children get their parents' undivided attention. The Gores have scheduled a family meeting for Sunday evenings when every member of the family discusses events on their agenda for the week ahead.

The Gores are very protective of their family's privacy. The following are culled from articles in the Memphis Commercial Appeal (June 17, 1994); Facts on File; Who's Who; Good Housekeeping (March 1993); Saturday Evening Post (March 1993); Redbook (March 1994); Runner's World (June 1994); The Los Angeles Times(April 26, 1989); Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections

NAME: Karenna Gore (pronounced "Cahrenna")
RELATION: The Gore's first child
AGE AT CONVENTION: 23

BIO:

Named after the protagonist in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, (which Tipper read during her pregnancy) Karenna will turn 23 on August 6.

In 1991, when Karenna was just 17 (and her father was still a Senator) she won the Tennessee Water Skiing Championships and placed first in the jumping and slalom categories at West Memphis, Arkansas.

She attended the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. and Harvard University (as did her father).

The summer of 1994, just before returning to her senior year at Harvard,Karenna landed a job as a news intern at Memphis, Tennessee's WREG-TV. She also has interned at the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

NAME: Kristin Gore
RELATION: The Gore's second child
AGE AT CONVENTION: 19

BIO:

Kristin Gore attends Harvard University (as did her older sister Karenna and father). She graduated from the National Cathedral School where she played lacrosse with her younger sister, Sarah. She was born on June 5, 1977.

NAME: Sarah Gore
RELATION: The Gore's third child
AGE AT CONVENTION: 17

BIO

In the footsteps of her two older sisters, Sarah Gore attends the National Cathedral School and plays lacrosse. She was born on January 7, 1979.

NAME: Albert Gore III
RELATION: The Gore's youngest child and only son
AGE AT CONVENTION: 13

BIO:

The youngest of the Gore clan, Albert III has recovered fully from a near fatal car accident that occurred when he and his father were leaving a Baltimore Orioles season-opening baseball game in 1989, when Albert was just 6 years old. He had let go of his father's hand outside the stadium and dashed into a traffic-filled street. He was hit by a car and thrown 30 feet, suffering extensive internal injuries. After three weeks in Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, Albert was brought home in a full body cast. He eventually recovered after numerous surgeries (doctors had to remove 60 percent of his spleen) and months of rehabilitation. (Source: Runner's World, June 1994; Saturday Evening Post, March 1993)

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert attends St. Albans school, where he is on the basketball, baseball and soccer teams. He was born on October 19, 1982.

NAME: Albert Gore Sr.
RELATION: Vice President Al Gore's father
AGE AT CONVENTION: 88

BIO:

Albert Gore Sr. served 32 years in both houses of Congress. He won House elections in 1938, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48 and 50. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1952, 58 and 64. He retired from politics after losing a bid for a fourth Senate term in 1970. Gore was known for his progressive views on civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam War, which analysts say cost him reelection in 1970. Albert Gore Sr. was touted as a possible vice presidential candidate in 1956 and 1960. (After Adlai Stevenson surprised the 1956 convention by not personally selecting a running mate, Gore was in third place on the first and second roll calls. He then withdrew and threw his support behind fellow-Senator (and Tennessean) Estes Kefauver. Gore's move started a stampede that helped Kefauver overtake John F. Kennedy and win the vice presidential nomination.)s

Albert Gore Sr. and his wife Pauline's son Al. Jr. was born in Washington, D.C. on March 31, 1948. They lived on Embassy Row in an apartment of the Fairfax Hotel. The Gores also kept a family farm in Carthage, Tennessee. The family is Baptist.

Al Gore Sr. was born on December 26, 1907

NAME: Pauline (LaFon) Gore, born 1912
RELATION: Mother of Vice President Al Gore
AGE AT CONVENTION: N/A

BIO:

Although not much has been written about her, it was reported that Pauline Gore was always recognized as a full partner in the family profession and was an accomplished political strategist. Like his father, Al Gore's mother also was an attorney who was interested in public affairs and described as "a formidable personality in her own right." She received her J.D. as one of the first women to ever graduate from Vanderbilt University's law school. The Gore household was described as especially close-knit and very involved in politics and government, which often were discussed at the dinner table. Pauline Gore supported Al Jr's decision to serve in Vietnam but told him she would have left for Canada if he had decided to leave the country to avoid the draft.

Pauline had two children, Nancy and Albert - Nancy was ten years older than Albert and died of lung cancer in 1984, during Al Gore's successful bid for the Senate seat held by retiring Republican Howard Baker.

On July 5, 1995, at the age of 82, Pauline was hospitalized for a heart attack at Vanderbilt's University Medical Center in Nashville.

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