Personal Life
Franken met his wife, Franni Bryson, in his first year of college. In 2005, they moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Together they have two children: their daughter Thomasin (born 1981) has degrees from Harvard and the French Culinary Institute, and is a former elementary school teacher turned "food educator and private chef"; and their son Joe (born 1984) holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University.
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