Nancy Gore Hunger

Nancy Gore Hunger

Nancy LaFon Gore Hunger (1938 - July 11, 1984) was older sister of Vice-President Al Gore. 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 (since 1982).

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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