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My Take
What interests me most about Jacob Frey is the marathon runner's mindset he brings to politics. Running a major American city through turbulent years is less a sprint than an endurance event, and Frey's background in competitive distance running feels almost like foreshadowing. He took office in 2018 and kept winning reelection, which tells me voters respond to persistence over flash. I don't agree with every call a big-city mayor makes, nobody could, but I respect a politician who treats setbacks like mile markers rather than finish lines. From William & Mary to three-term mayor of Minneapolis, his career reads like a long, stubborn, evenly paced race.
Overview
Jacob Lawrence Frey (born July 23, 1981) is an American politician and attorney who has served since 2018 as the 48th mayor of Minneapolis. A member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party, he served on the Minneapolis City Council from 2014 to 2018 and was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 2017 and reelected in 2021 and 2025.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jacob Frey
- Name (Japanese)
- ジェイコブ・フレイ
- Reading
- じぇいこぶ・ふれい
- Born
- July 23, 1981 (age 44)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Rooster
- Origin
- Oakton, Virginia, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 165 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- politician / athletics competitor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Oakton High School
- University
- College of William & Mary
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://jacobfrey.org/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jacobfrey1/
- Xhttps://x.com/Jacob_Frey
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Frey
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.