text: Albert Gore , Jr. was born in Washington , D.C. , the second of two children of Albert Gore , Sr. , a U.S. Representative who later served as a U.S. Senator from Tennessee , and Pauline LaFon Gore , one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School .
simplified: His father , Albert Gore , Sr. was a Senator for Tennessee . Gore was brought up in both Washington and Tennessee .