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Michael T. Franken is an American politician and former United States Navy officer who is the junior United States Senator from Iowa. He was elected to the Senate in 2020, defeating incumbent Republican Senator Joni Ernst. Franken previously served as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Franken was born in Sioux Center, Iowa, and graduated from Sioux Center High School in 1975. He attended Iowa State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering in 1979. He then joined the United States Navy, where he served as a naval aviator and flight instructor. He retired from the Navy in 2001 with the rank of Commander. Franken was first elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 2012, and was re-elected in 2014 and 2016. He was a member of the House Appropriations Committee and the House Education Committee. In 2018, he was the Democratic nominee for Iowa's 4th congressional district, but was defeated by incumbent Republican Steve King. In 2020, Franken ran for the United States Senate and defeated incumbent Republican Joni Ernst. He was sworn in on January 3, 2021.

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Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 8 November 1957
Birthday 8 November
Birthplace Sioux Center, Iowa, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2019

In Washington, D.C., he served a fellowship in congressional affairs for the Office of the Secretary of the Navy; as the political-military chair in the Chief of Naval Operations’ Executive Panel in Information, Plans and Strategy's Deep Blue staff; in the Assessments Division in support of Navy's representation in the Joint Requirements Oversight Council and in the Joint Staff's Joint Operations Division. He presented the worldwide orders book to Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from 2003 to 2005 and was the first military officer to serve as a legislative fellow for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

On August 26, 2019, Franken announced that he would be running for the Democratic Party nomination for United States Senate in Iowa for the seat currently held by Joni Ernst, a member of the Republican Party.

2015

Starting in January 2015, Franken was the first director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency when it was created through the merger of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, and parts of the Air Force's Life Sciences Lab. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting agency is an 800-person defense agency which oversees the location and retrieval of the remains of American veterans of foreign wars.

1989

In 1989, Franken married his wife, Jordan. Together they have two children. Franken lives in downtown Sioux City, Iowa.

1981

Franken attended Morningside College and graduated on an ROTC scholarship from the College of Engineering at the University of Nebraska before entering the United States Navy in 1981. His early operational assignments were in guided missile destroyers.

1957

Michael Thane Franken (born November 8, 1957) is an American politician and retired United States Navy Vice Admiral. His final posting was as Deputy Director of Military Operations for the United States Africa Command. As of May 2020, Franken is a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in Iowa.

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