Postcard - Bill Clinton and Al Gore

Object number2014.004.09

Date1992

OriginLittle Rock, Arkansas

MediumPaper, ink

Dimensions4 × 6 in. (10.2 × 15.2 cm)

Credit LineOld State House Museum Collection

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DescriptionPostcard with a real image photograph of Presidential candidate Bill Clinton and Vice-Presidential candidate Al Gore. At the time Clinton was Governor of Arkansas and Gore was a Senator from Tennessee. The color photograph was taken July 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden during the Democratic convention. Both men are waving at the crowd as they accept their party's nomination. On the back it is written in Clinton's handwriting "I wanted to drop you a note to thank you. We could never have gotten this far without your support. Let's do it one more time & need your help and vote. Let's make Arkansas proud on November third. Bill Clinton." This is printed. It is postmarked October 29, 1992 in Little Rock, Arkansas. 19 cents postage.

William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton, born William Jefferson Blythe IV, was born in Hope, Arkansas on August 19, 1946. Clinton was the fortieth and forty-second governor of Arkansas, as well as the forty-second president of the United States. He married his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, in 1975 and their daughter, Chelsea, was born in 1980.

Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. was born on March 31st, 1948 in Washington D.C. to Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, Sr. and Pauline LaFon Gore. In 1976 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served until 1985. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1984 and reelected in 1990, but he resigned on January 2, 1993 before Bill Clinton’s Presidential Inauguration and his Vice-Presidential Inauguration later that month. Gore served as Vice President of the United States from 1993-2001.

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