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Born Mary Elizabeth Aitcheson in Washington, D.C., Mrs. Gore grew up in Arlington, Virginia. Her parents divorced when she was four years old and she was raised by her mother and grandmother. Tipper attended St Agnes (currently St. Stephen's and St. Agnes ) a private Episcopalian school in Alexandria, Virginia, where she excelled at athletics and played the drums for an all-girl band, The Wildcats.

She met her future husband, Al Gore, at his high school senior prom ( St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.) and they were soon dating. When Gore went north to attend Harvard University, Tipper followed, attending Garland Junior College and later Boston College.

Mrs. Gore received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Boston University in 1970 and her Master's degree in Psychology from George Peabody College at Vanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt University is a private, independent university located in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded as the result of a gift of one million dollars by shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1873. He hoped that this gift and the work of th in 1975. Mrs. Gore worked as a newspaper photographer for the Nashville Tennessean until her husband was elected to Congress in 1976.

In 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe, she co-founded the Parents Music Resource CenterThe PMRC (or Parents Music Resource Center was a committee formed in 1985 by the wives of several congressmen. They included Tipper Gore (wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore); Susan Baker, wife of Treasury Secretary James Baker; and Nancy Thu (PMRC). Critics of the PMRC, including Jello BiafraOctober 15, 2003). Jello Biafra (real name: Eric Boucher; born June 17, 1958, Boulder, Colorado) was the lead singer for the Dead Kennedys, a punk rock band. Biafra has used absurdist media tactics in the tradition of the Yippies to highlight issues of ci and Frank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa ( December 21, 1940 December 4, 1993) was an American rock/ jazz fusion musician, composer, and satirist. Early life and influences Born in Baltimore, Maryland on 21 December 1940, Zappa was of mixed Sicilian, Italian, Greek, Arab, Fre, have accused the PMRC of conducting public and under-the-table censorship campaigns against various recording artists and have pointed out the PMRC's ties to the American religious right.

In 2000, Tipper Gore began to make public appearances as a "mental health" advocate. She has been criticised by human rights organizations for her ambiguous stance towards involuntary psychiatric treatment, including forced drugging and commitment of people labelled mentally ill.

In 2002, Tipper was urged by her supporters to run for the vacant senate seat her husband once held in Tennessee, which was being vacated by Fred Dalton Thompson. However Tipper declined the offer stating it was not the right thing for her at that time.

The Gores are known for being strong on family. In 2002, she and her husband Al wrote two books on family values and the transformed American family: Joined at the Heart & Spirit of Family. The Gores also hold an annual conference in Nashville that bring together families and those who work with them to talk and design better ways to strengthen family life in America. At the center of Family Re-Union is the belief that programs and guidelines should respond to the needs of families and communities, and should build on their strengths.

Al and Tipper Gore now reside in Nasvhille, TN. They have four children: Karenna (August 6, 1973), Kristin (June 5, 1977), Sarah (January 7, 1979) and Albert III (October 19, 1982). They also have two grandchildren: Anna and Wyatt.