Career
She was the elder of two children of Albert Gore, Senior, a United States. Representative who later served as a United States. Senator from Tennessee, and Pauline LaFon Gore, one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School. Gore"s paternal ancestors were Scots-Irish who first settled in Virginia in the mid 17th-century and moved to Tennessee after the Revolutionary War. Nancy LaFon Gore died of lung cancer in 1984 after battling the disease for two years.
