He quit law school to pursue a career in politics
Despite his parents' wishes, Gore first attended Vanderbilt University Divinity School (1971-1972) on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship for students pursuing secular vocations. He later stated that he went there to investigate spiritual matters and to make sense of social injustices that seemed to contradict his religious views.
In 1971, Gore began working as an investigative reporter for The Tennessean on the night shift. His investigations into corruption among Metro Council members in Nashville resulted in the arrest and indictment of two councilmen for different offenses.
He took a leave of absence from The Tennessean in 1974 to attend Vanderbilt Law School. His decision to become an attorney was influenced in part by his time as a journalist when he discovered that while he could expose corruption, he couldn't change it. After that, he quit law school to pursue a career in politics. As one of the interesting facts about Al Gore is that he did not finish law school, instead electing to compete for a position in the United States House of Representatives in 1976 after learning that his father's former seat in the House was about to be vacated.
He won four elections. In addition, he was the first person to appear on the Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN). In 1984, Gore successfully ran for the seat left by Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker in the United States Senate. Later, he was instrumental in passing the High-Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991, which dramatically expanded the Internet.
