Biography
American political wife of Al Gore. Her husband took the post of U.S.
Vice-President 1/20/1993, under Bill Clinton, with whom she shares the
same birthday.
The only daughter of a mother who divorced when she was two, Tipper was
touchy about having no father when she was growing up, only seeing her dad
on Sundays. As an adult, she formed a good relationship with him.
Attending a girl's school in Washington, she later said that she was
raised to do nothing more than marry and have a family.
Tipper (a nickname she was given as a little girl from a lullaby), met
Al Gore at his high school senior prom. They dated exclusively while he
was in Harvard and she was working on her psychology degree from Boston
University.
They married on 5/19/1970 before he shipped out for Vietnam. Later she
returned to school to earn her M.A. After Al left the Army, they moved to
Tennessee where he worked for a few years as a journalist in Nashville and
began divinity school, then law school at Vanderbilt. When her husband
entered politics in 1976, Tipper gave up her job as a newspaper
photographer in Nashville, built a darkroom at their home in Virginia and
free-lanced in Washington. She proved to be an effective political
campaigner, though pregnant with their second child. The Gore family
increased with the addition of four kids, Karenna, born on 8/06/1973,
Kristin, 6/05/1977, Sarah, 1/07/1979, and Albert III, 10/19/1982.
Since Al Gore was first elected to Congress in 1976, Tipper spent most
of her time raising their kids in their Arlington, VA home. Al was
pursuing the family political dream as established by his dad, which
resulted in four terms in Congress, eight years in the Senate, a run for
the Oval Office in 1988 and then the vice presidency of the United States.
In 1985 she began her own campaign against sex, drugs and violence in
rock lyrics. Not prudish or judgmental, Tipper deplores the lyric content
on today's groups, such as sadism, the denigration of women and
hate-filled content. Her campaign was not for censorship, but for record
labeling. She herself used to play drums while in high school and loved
the R 'n' R of the '60s. She published "Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated
Society" in 1987.
Being an activist was not a new idea for her. From the time before she
married Gore she protested the Vietnam War and worked for civil rights.
She threw herself into volunteerism in the mid-1980s when her youngest
child was a toddler, with one of her causes being Families for the
Homeless. In April 1989, Al took their six-year-old son, Albert III, to
watch a baseball game. The boy ran into traffic and was hit by a car and
thrown 30 feet, suffering massive internal injuries. His legs and ribs
were broken and his internal organs crushed. For a harrowing month, Al and
Tipper barely left their son's hospital bedside and one of them slept
beside him for the next three months. His recovery took months of
extensive surgery and therapy. With family counseling, they learned to put
more emphasis on partnership and teamwork. Al had to deal with his
parental feelings that he should have been better able to protect his son.
Failing in his bid for the 1988 presidential nomination, he had to
reevaluate his political directions as well as what his family meant to
him. He decided against another political run in 1992, pulling away from
public life to put more time into the strength and solidarity of his
family. They go to church on Sunday, and in the evenings all get together
for a group dialogue to "get their needs out on the table."
On 12/28/1999, Tipper underwent surgery to remove a benign nodule
discovered on her thyroid gland, remaining in Johns Hopkins Medical Center
overnight. In mid-March 1999, Gore once more hit the campaign trail,
stumping for the presidential nomination in Iowa. On 3/07/2000, he
defeated his opponent in the primaries, Bill Bradley, to become the
Democratic candidate for president, running against Republican George W.
Bush.
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