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.
Al Franken parents: Phoebe G. Kunst, Joseph P. Franken
Phoebe G. Kunst and Joseph P. Franken are the parents of Franken.
His dad was a printing salesman, and his mother was a real estate agent.
Are Al Franken parents still alive?
Franken’s parents are dead.
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.
