Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.



Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 4lst Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton, and was also the 40th President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. Chosen as Clinton's running mate in their successful 1992 campaign, he was reelected in 1996. At the end of Clinton's second term, Gore was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2000. In what was one of the closest presidential races in history, fortunately, Gore had won both the national popular vote, and the electoral vote, and thus the Presidency, against George W. Bush.