Al Gore ran for president twice, in 1988 and 2000. In 1988, he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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In 2000, he won the Democratic nomination but lost the general election to George W. Bush. Al Gore has not run for president since 2000.
As an author and environmental activist, Al Gore’s work in climate change activism earned him (jointly with the IPCC) the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. In 2007, Al Gore was named a runner-up for Time’s 2007 Person of the Year.
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Al Gore began serving in the U.S. Congress at the age of 28. He previously served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1985 to 1993.
Al Gore served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1985. Gore is also a partner in the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. In 2008, Gore won the Dan David Prize for Social Responsibility.
Al Gore received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album (2009) for his book An Inconvenient Truth, a Primetime Emmy Award for Current TV (2007), and a Webby Award (2005).


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