Candidate ProfilesI. Al GoreA. US Vice President and Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948 in Washington DC. His father Albert Gore Sr., a congressman from Tennessee, served in the House of Representatives and his mother Pauline La Fon was one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt Law School. Gore, a Baptist, attended Harvard where he earned a bachelor's degree with honors in government. Although he was strongly against the war, Al joined the Army in 1970 where he served in Vietnam as a military reporter. After attending Vanderbilt Law School, Gore ran for and won Tennessee's fourth district congressional seat where he served four terms, after which he ran for and won Tennessee's senatorial seat. Gore remained in the Senate until presidential candidate Bill Clinton chose him as his running mate in 1992, they were elected to office that year and re-elected in 1996. While in office Gore expressed great concern about the environment and in 1992 wrote the book Earth in Balance: Healing the Global Environment. Gore has been married to Tipper Aitcheson since 1969, together they have four children: Karenna, Kristin, Sarah and Albert III. Al Gore's running mate for the 2000 election is Connecticut state senator Joe Lieberman. In addition to being the first Jewish-American ever elected to the United States Senate, Lieberman served as the attorney general of the state of Connecticut and also practiced law in New Haven.II. George Bush A. Texas governor and Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush was born on July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. Bush, often referred to simply as W. is the eldest son of former President George Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush, his siblings include Jeb (governor of Florida), Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy. Like his father, Bush attended the prestigious Philips Andover Academy in Massachusetts before going to Yale University where he graduated. After leaving Yale he went to Texas and joined the Air National Guard, where he learned to fly fighter planes. He eventually became a lieutenant but was never called up to fight in Vietnam. In 1972 Bush entered Harvard Business School, earning his MBA in 1975. In 1977 he married Laura Welch, a former teacher and librarian, and in 1980 she gave birth to their twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna. Shortly after his 40th birthday, in July 1986, Bush reached a turning point in his personal and professional life.