Al Franken
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• He is currently the junior United States Senator from Minnesota (as of Nov 2017)
• Rise to fame - He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a writer and performer on the television comedy show Saturday Night Live
• Politics - After several decades as a comedic actor and writer, he became a prominent liberal political activist
• Franken was elected to the United States Senate in 2008, narrowly defeating incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman
• Franken is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the Democratic Party
• Born in New York City, Franken moved to Minnesota when he was four but he later went back to the East Coast and attended Harvard College
• With his writing partner Tom Davis, with whom he had developed an interest in improvisational theatre in high school, he was hired as a writer for SNL at its inception in 1975
• He worked on the show as a writer and performer until 1980, and returned from 1985 to 1995
• After leaving SNL, he wrote and acted in movies and television shows
• He also hosted a nationally syndicated, political radio talk show, The Al Franken Show, and wrote six books, four of which are political satires critical of conservative politics
• Franken ran for the US Senate from Minnesota in 2008 and, after a close race, he trailed incumbent Norm Coleman by 215 votes

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