Question: The author of Oh, the Things I Know! was a United States Senator from what state?
Context: Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American writer, comedian, and politician.  Since 2009, he has been the junior United States Senator from Minnesota.  He became well known in the 1970s and 1980s as a writer and performer on the television comedy show "Saturday Night Live".  After decades as a comedic actor and writer, he became a prominent liberal political activist.  Franken was first elected to the United States Senate in 2008 in a razor-thin victory over incumbent Republican Senator Norm Coleman, and then won re-election in 2014 over Republican challenger Mike McFadden.  Franken is a member of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the Democratic Party. Allen Taylor Caperton (November 21, 1810 – July 26, 1876) was an American politician who was a United States Senator from the State of West Virginia in 1875–1876.  He was a member of the Democratic Party.  He had served in the Virginia House of Delegates and Virginia State Senate before the American Civil War.  During the Civil War, he served as a Confederate States Senator. Clement Claiborne Clay (December 13, 1816 – January 3, 1882), also known as C. C. Clay, Jr., was a United States Senator (Democrat) from the state of Alabama from 1853 to 1861, and a Confederate States Senator from Alabama from 1862 to 1864.  His portrait appeared on the Confederate one-dollar note (4th issue and later). William J. Pascrell III is an American lobbyist with the Princeton Public Affairs Group, and has been the Passaic County Counsel.  He has worked for United States Senator and Governor Jon Corzine, United States Senator Frank Lautenberg, United State Senator Robert Menendez, Congressman Robert Roe, Herb Klein and Albio Sires as well as Governor James E. McGreevey.  Pascrell earned an Emmy Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Talk Program Series for "The Battling Bills," a program he created jointly with Bill Palatucci.  Pascrell graduated from Rutgers University and the Eagleton Institute of Politics, and earned a Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University.  He is the son of Congressmen Bill Pascrell. Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917June 28, 2010) was a United States Senator from West Virginia.  A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd served as a U.S. Representative from 1953 until 1959 and as a U.S. Senator from 1959 to 2010.  He was the longest-serving Senator in United States history.  In addition, he was, at the time of his death, the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress, a record later surpassed by Representative John Dingell of Michigan.  Byrd was the last remaining member of the U.S. Senate to have served during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, and the last remaining member of Congress to have served during the presidency of Harry Truman.  Byrd is also the only West Virginian to have served in both houses of the state legislature and both houses of Congress. David Kemp Karnes (born December 12, 1948) is a former United States Senator from Nebraska.  He is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Fairmont Group Incorporated, a merchant banking/consulting company with offices in Omaha and Washington.  Karnes also serves in an "of counsel" capacity to the national law firm of Kutak Rock and practices out of the firm's Omaha and Washington offices.  He joined the firm in 1989 following his tenure as a United States Senator.  He is currently involved in numerous civic, educational and charitable organizations in Nebraska and nationally. The Liberty Hall Museum in Union, Union County, New Jersey, United States, is an American historic site.  Built in 1772 as a fourteen-room Georgian-style house, Liberty Hall stands today a fifty-room Victorian Italianate mansion.  Liberty Hall has been home to many historical figures and was the home of William Livingston, the first Governor of New Jersey, who served from 1776 to 1790; United States Supreme Court Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston; the Kean political dynasty, including Susan Livingston Kean, widow of Continental Congress delegate John Kean, United States Senator and Congressman John Kean, and Captain John Kean, son of United States Senator Hamilton Fish Kean; and, in its first year of occupancy, future Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.  Liberty Hall has had visitors of such stature as George Washington, Martha Washington, Lewis Morris, Marquis de Lafayette, Elias Boudinot, and John Jay, the latter of whom was married there. John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is an American attorney and politician who is the junior United States Senator from Louisiana, serving since 2017.  A member of the Republican Party, he served terms as Louisiana state treasurer and took office as Louisiana's junior senator in the United States Senate on January 3, 2017, alongside the state's senior senator Bill Cassidy.  He defeated Democratic candidate Foster Campbell in the Senate election runoff by more than 21 percentage points, about a month after prevailing in the state's jungle primary, along with Campbell. Debra Strobel Fischer (born March 1, 1951) is the senior United States Senator from the state of Nebraska.  Previously, she was a two-term member of the Nebraska Legislature, representing the 43rd District.  She defeated former United States Senator Bob Kerrey in the election held on November 6, 2012, and assumed one of Nebraska's two Senate seats in January 2013. Oh, the Things I Know!  A Guide to Success, or Failing That, Happiness is a 2003 book written by Al Franken that offers humorous life advice on everything from dating to getting a good job.  The title parodies Dr. Seuss's "Oh, the Places You'll Go! ", which is a popular gift given to college graduates.
Answer: Minnesota