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Senate Years of Service: 1953-1971 Party: Democrat
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GORE, Albert Arnold, (father of Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.),
a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born in Granville,
Jackson County, Tenn., December 26, 1907; attended the public schools;
graduated from State Teachers College, Murfreesboro, Tenn., in 1932, and from
Nashville (Tenn.) Y.M.C.A. night law school in 1936; taught in the rural
schools of Overton and Smith Counties, Tenn., 1926-1930; county superintendent
of education of Smith County 1932-1936; admitted to the bar in 1936 and
commenced practice in Carthage, Tenn.; Tennessee commissioner of labor
1936-1937; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-sixth Congress in 1938;
reelected to the two succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939,
until his resignation on December 4, 1944, to enter the United States Army;
reelected to the Seventy-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January
3, 1945-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for reelection but was elected in
1952 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1958 and again in 1964, and
served from January 3, 1953, to January 3, 1971; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1970; chairman, Special Committee on Attempts to Influence
Senators (Eighty-fourth Congress); resumed the practice of law with Occidental
Petroleum Co. and became vice president and member of the board of directors;
taught law at Vanderbilt University 1970-1972; member of the board of petroleum
and coal companies; was a resident of Carthage, Tenn. until his death on
December 5, 1998; interment in Smith County Memorial Gardens in Carthage,
Tenn.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Gore,
Albert.
Let the Glory Out: My South and Its Politics. New York: Viking
Press, 1972; Longley, Kyle.
Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 2004.
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