Gore was a superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention from Tennessee. Gore expressed his support for Hillary Clinton on July 25, Superdelegates in were automatic delegates to the Democratic National Convention, meaning that, unlike regular delegates, they were not elected to this position. Also unlike regular delegates, they were not required to pledge their support to any presidential candidate, and they were not bound by the results of their state's presidential primary election or caucus.
In , superdelegates included members of the Democratic National Committee, Democratic members of Congress, Democratic governors, and distinguished party leaders, including former presidents and vice presidents.
All superdelegates were free to support any presidential candidate of their choosing at the Democratic National Convention. Tennessee had 75 delegates at the Democratic National Convention.
Of this total, 67 were pledged delegates. National party rules stipulated how Democratic delegates in all states were allocated.
Pledged delegates were allocated to a candidate in proportion to the votes he or she received in a state's primary or caucus. A candidate was eligible to receive a share of the state's pledged delegates if he or she won at least 15 percent of the votes cast in the primary or caucus.
There were three types of pledged Democratic delegates: congressional district delegates, at-large delegates, and party leaders and elected officials PLEOs. Congressional district delegates were allocated proportionally based on the primary or caucus results in a given district. At-large and PLEO delegates were allocated proportionally based on statewide primary results. Eight party leaders and elected officials served as unpledged delegates.
These delegates were not required to adhere to the results of a state's primary or caucus. Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update.
Al Gore and his wife, Tipper Gore, divorced in They had four children together during the course of their marriage. Al Gore News Feed.
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Senate candidate, Voter information What's on my ballot? He would attend school in Washington D. Gore attended St. Albans School, an elite Washington D. After graduating from St.
Albans, Gore attended Harvard University in He initially majored in journalism but he decided instead to major in government after campaigning for and winning freshman class president. It was at Harvard when Gore became an environmentalist. In his senior year, Gore took a class from noted oceanographer Roger Neville. After graduating from Harvard, Gore enlisted in the U.
Senate in Gore was deployed to Vietnam in January He spent only five months in the country before he was discharged in May His military record in the country was largely unremarkable and he did not see any major combat. Gore opposed to the war. Gore went to work at The Tennessean as a night shift reporter. He did not graduate. House seat. Gore won the Democratic primary and faced no major party opposition in the general election.
In , Gore decided to run for the U. Gore was unopposed in the Democratic primary and won the general election. This was in spite of Ronald Reagan handily winning Tennessee in the presidential election. Gore was considered somewhat moderate to conservative in his views. Like many white Southern Democrats, Gore was socially conservative on some issues. For example, he voted to limit federal funding for abortion. Gore Sr. Raised on a farm, Gore witnessed the loss of his family's entire financial resources during the Great Depression, when three local banks collapsed during a single week.
Gore obtained his formal education in one-room schools and at Gordonsville High School. He worked his way through college at the University of Tennessee and the State Teachers College in Murfreesboro now Middle Tennessee State University by teaching school, fiddling at barn dances, and working at various other jobs during the fall semester to pay tuition in the spring.
A varsity basketball player, Gore graduated from Middle Tennessee State Teachers College in with a major in history. He served as Smith County superintendent of schools from to while attending night classes at the Nashville YMCA law school, from which he graduated in Gore was interested in public service from a very young age, and his efforts to reform the Tennessee Young Democrats brought him to the attention of Congressman Gordon Browning, who asked him to manage his unsuccessful race for governor in Successful in his second run for governor, Browning named Gore commissioner of labor in In that office Gore established Tennessee's first unemployment compensation program and implemented a viable coal mine safety inspection program.
House of Representatives, succeeding Congressman Ridley Mitchell. Thus began thirty-two years of public service representing Tennessee in the House and the U.
Senate Although he strongly supported Franklin D.
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