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 United States Vice-President 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. Nancy grew up on a farm where her family grew tobacco, and started smoking as a teenager. Concerned for the contribution of smoking to her death from lung cancer, her family stopped growing tobacco after her death.

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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