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Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. (born March 31, 1948) was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore previously served in the U. S. House of Representatives (1977 - 85) and the U. S. Senate (1985 - 93), representing Tennessee. A prominent environmental activist, he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change." Gore was the Democratic nominee for president in the 2000 election, ultimately losing to the Republican candidate George W. Bush. A legal controversy over the Florida election recount, eventually settled in favor of Bush by the Supreme Court, made the election among the most controversial in American history. Today, Gore is chairman of the American television channel Current TV, chairman of Generation Investment Management, a director on the board of Apple Inc., an unofficial advisor to Google's senior management, and chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection. He recently joined venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, to head that firm's climate change solutions group. More recently, Gore has taken up the position of an environmental activist, lecturing on the topic of global warming, which he labels "the climate crisis." In 2006, he starred in the Academy Award-winning documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth , regarding the environment. Gore organized the July 7, 2007 benefit concert Live Earth in an effort to raise awareness about climate change. There is public speculation over the possibility of a run for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination although Gore has frequently stated that "I have no plans to run."
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