what state did al gore represent?
Tennessee
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 Gore began serving in the U.S. Congress at the age of 28 and stayed there for the next 16 years , serving in both the House ( 1977 – 85 ) and the Senate ( 1985 – 93 ) . Gore spent many weekends in Tennessee , working with his constituents . 

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 Gore was an elected official for 24 years . He was a Congressman from Tennessee ( 1977 – 85 ) and from 1985 to 1993 served as one of the state 's Senators . He served as Vice President during the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2001 . In the 2000 presidential election , in what was one of the closest presidential races in history , Gore won the popular vote but lost in the Electoral College to Republican George W. Bush . A controversial election dispute over a vote recount in Florida was settled by the U.S. Supreme Court , which ruled 5 – 4 in favor of Bush . 

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 In 1974 , he took a leave of absence from The Tennessean to attend Vanderbilt University Law School . His decision to become an attorney was a partial result of his time as a journalist , as he realized that , while he could expose corruption , he could not change it . Gore did not complete law school , deciding abruptly , in 1976 , to run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives when he found out that his father 's former seat in the House was about to be vacated . 

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 On November 30 , 2006 , he became the second Democratic candidate to officially announce a presidential run . His short @-@ lived campaign was focused on his home state of Iowa but suffered low standing in national polls and a lack of name recognition . During the campaign , he emphasized the War in Iraq and his plan for ending it . 

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 Gore repeated his neutrality eight years later during the Democratic presidential primaries of 2016 until endorsing Hillary Clinton on July 25 , 2016 , the first day of the that year 's Democratic National Convention . 
