Alan Stuart Franken is a former United States Senator from Minnesota. In the 1970s and 1980s, he rose to prominence as a staff writer and performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live.
He became a notable liberal political activist after decades as an entertainer, anchoring The Al Franken Show on Air America Radio.
Did Al Franken graduate from Harvard?
Franken graduated from Harvard College, where he majored in political science and graduated with honors in 1973.
Before that, he attended The Blake School in 1969, where he wrestled on the squad. He
Franken was elected to the United States Senate in 2008 as the nominee of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL, a Democratic Party affiliate), beating incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman by 312 votes out of over three million ballots (a margin of just over 0.01 percent ).
He was re-elected in 2014 with 53.2 percent of the vote, defeating Republican candidate Mike McFadden. Franken quit on January 2, 2018, following many claims of sexual misconduct leveled against him.
