Thomas Gore

Thomas Pryor Gore ( born December 10, 1870 Webster County, Mississippi; † 16 March 1949 in Washington DC ) was an American politician.

Biography

Early life

Due to an accident Gore lost in childhood his eyesight and later wrote the first blind Senator of the United States history. Despite the blindness Gore went his way, and made 1890 his degree in Walthall (Mississippi).

In order to finance the studies at the Cumberland University of Tennessee, he worked from 1890 to 1891 as a substitute teacher at an elementary school. 1892, after his graduation in law, he opened a law firm in Walthall.

1895 Gore moved to Corsicana (Texas ), where he ran unsuccessfully in 1898 for the Populist Party for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Around the turn of the century moved to Gore to Lawton in Oklahoma Territory, where he also worked as a lawyer in his profession.

Political career

Gore sat from 1903 to 1905 in Territorialrat of Oklahoma, and, after Oklahoma became a state of the United States in 1907, voted for the Democratic Party senator, a position he held from December 11, 1907 to March 3, 1921 exercised.

During his time in the Senate, Gore sat on the following committees and Komiteen:

In 1913 he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to the staff that commission to build agricultural relations with the U.S. in Europe, and should so regulate the exchange of goods. Gore served from 1912 to 1916 also a member of the Democratic National Committee.

In 1930, after nine years of absence, Gore was re-elected to the Senate and took office on March 4, 1931. This time, however, he could only a term to defend his seat and served until January 3, 1937. During his second term in office he sat from 1933 to 1936 in the Committee for Inter- Oceanic relations, which later in the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation has been renamed.

Late life

After retiring from the Senate, Gore opened a law office in Washington, which he led until his death at the age of 78 years.

Family

1900 Gore married Nina Belle Kay, the daughter of a Texan farmer. They had two children, Nina Gore and Thomas Notley Gore. Nina Gore is the mother of the writer Gore Vidal, who is thus Thomas Gore's grandson.

Thomas Gore is also a distant relative of the later Vice President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore.