Nancy Gore Hunger

Nancy LaFon Gore Hunger
Born Nancy LaFon Gore
(1938-01-23)January 23, 1938
Died July 11, 1984(1984-07-11) (aged 46)
Cause of death lung cancer
Resting place Smith County Memorial Gardens, Carthage, Tennessee, U.S.
Nationality  American
Known for Older sister of Former U.S. VP Al Gore.
Parents

Nancy LaFon Gore Hunger (January 23, 1938 – July 11, 1984) was the older sister of Vice-President Al Gore.

Biography

She was the elder 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.[1] 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.[2] Nancy LaFon Gore died of lung cancer in 1984 after battling the disease for two years.

References

  1. Tumulty,Karen (August 21, 2000). "Democratic Convention: The Women Who Made Al Gore". Time. Retrieved June 29, 2010. http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,997752,00.html>
  2. Turque, Inventing Al Gore, p. 8.


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