CARTHAGE, Tenn., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Pauline LaFon Gore, mother of former Vice President Al Gore, passed away in her sleep at her home in Carthage, Tenn., at the age of 92.
Mrs. Gore was the wife of the late Sen. Albert Gore Sr. and was a force behind both her husband's and son's campaigns, the Nashville Tennessean reported.
She was one of the South's first women to practice law, but gave it up to throw her support behind her husband's campaign. In later years, that support was given to her son, offering behind-the-scenes advice on policy and issues.
To Pauline Gore, the key was that women should be able to choose whatever they want to do. She was named the Vanderbilt School of Law's Distinguished Alumna for 1999, the first woman to receive the honor.
Mrs. Gore bore two children, Nancy, in 1938, and Albert Jr., in 1948. Nancy Gore Hunger, who was one of the first volunteers in the U.S. Peace Corps in 1961, died of lung cancer in 1984, just before her brother was elected to the U.S. Senate.
