Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and wife expecting second child ahead of election
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and his wife, Sarah Clarke, are expecting a baby due July 21, they announced Sunday.
The news comes the same year Frey is up for for re-election, facing at least four challengers this fall.
“There’s so much chaos going on in the world, sometimes it’s nice just to celebrate these beautiful things,” Frey said in a Monday interview.
Their midwife is the wife of St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, Sakeena Futrell-Carter, who also was the midwife for Frey and Clarke’s 4-year-old daughter, Frida, when she was born September 2020.
Clarke was pregnant during the tumultuous first months of the COVID-19 pandemic and chaotic weeks after police killed George Floyd. At one point, a throng of protesters showed up on the couple’s doorstep to demand Frey “defund police.”
Clarke, a former lobbyist who is now a lawyer for a solar energy company, said in 2023 that the couple had debated whether or not to have another child, knowing they’d eventually need to expand from their apartment to a home, where security would be a concern for them and their neighbors.