Albert Gore, Jr. was born in Washington, D.C., to Albert Gore, Sr., a U.S. Representative (1939–1944, 1945–1953) and Senator (1953–1971) from Tennessee, and Pauline LaFon Gore, one of the first women to graduate from Vanderbilt University Law School.
Are you certain he wasn't born in Tennessee? I know he spent the entirety of his, pretentious formative years in the lap of luxury of some swank hotel being chauffeured about, but actually born there?
If so, that makes me lean very heavily in the direction of original intent to exclude those born in the District of Columbia, lol. The Founders were quite prescient, in seeking to eliminate certain influences, as Obama demonstrates. Gore's demonstrated allegiance has been to the concentration of political power, something the Founders sought to distribute and decentralize as much as possible.
So many Presidential candidates with plainly or potentially doubtful eligibility from 2000 onward, coinciding with so many efforts, five at least, to alter or remove the natural born citizen requirement for eligibility under the Constitution.
Makes me want to scour through John Forbes Kerry's various French connections, to see where his eligibility is in doubt.
. Thanks, did not think to check Vice Presidents. Now I wonder if any of them were born in territories before they became states.
I would not be too surprised, since regional "ticket balancing" has always been popular, and since so many Presidents were "easterners, including the many Virginians, balancing with a "western", however that was defined at the time, Vice President, might have resulted in a VP pick born before his state entered the union.
I found one, Charles Curtis, VP under Herbert Hoover, was born in January 1860 in the Kansas Territory prior to the arrival of statehood in January 1861.
I'm surprised there weren't more. But, I certainly don't recall any such controversy over AlGore, and there would have been, I'd think. And have never read of any over Curtis either.