CNN’s chief correspondent Jake Tapper is married to Jennifer Brown, a former regional field manager for Planned Parenthood.
The two wed in 2006 after meeting in a hotel bar during the 2004 Iowa caucuses.
Who is CNN correspondent Jake Tapper?
Jake Tapper is an American journalist for CNN. He was born on March 12, 1969 in New York City.
Tapper is the chief Washington correspondent for the network and currently anchors his one-hour weekday program, The Lead with Jake Tapper.
He also alternates hosting duties with Dana Bash on the Sunday morning program State of the Union.
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In 2023, Deadline announced that Tapper and Bash would moderate CNN's 2024 GOP Iowa debate on January 21.
Tapper previously served as a Senior White House Correspondent for ABC, where he received three Merriman Smith Memorial Awards from the White House Correspondents' Association.
Who is Jake Tapper’s wife, Jennifer Brown?
Tapper met Jennifer Brown at Hotel Fort Des Moines in Iowa while covering a John Kerry campaign event for the caucus in 2004.
Brown was raised in Missouri and she was born in 1977. When she and Tapper met, she was working in Washington D.C.
She told the Washingtonian in 2015 that she liked to volunteer with AmeriCorps and help elementary school children learn to read.
Tapper recounted the night the two met to Dartmouth Alumni magazine in 2016.
He said, "It was the day of the caucuses and all the big hitters flew in, so I knew I wasn’t going to go on. So my producer and I went out."
"When Kerry won, we said, 'Let’s go to the Kerry campaign headquarters because that’s where the party will be.'"
"And I walked into the Hotel Fort Des Moines and there was Jennifer," he added.
Tapper continued, "I saw her and I walked up to her and we went out the next day in D.C. and that was it," he said.
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A former regional field manager for Planned Parenthood, Brown is no longer working full-time.
Tapper also revealed to Dartmouth that she had since shifted to working part-time for a group called Upstream.
The national nonprofit works to ensure that birth control is available to all women.
They wed two years later at The Clubhouse on Baltimore, an event space previously called the Kansas City Club.
Brown described the location to Home & Design magazine saying, "We got married at President Truman’s old men’s club."
She added, "It felt very East Coast because of the history and the politics."
Tapper’s sister-in-law, Rabbi Laurie Hahn Tapper, officiated the wedding.
How many children do Jake and Jennifer have?
Tapper and Brown live with their two children, Alice and Jack Tapper, in Washington D.C.
Alice became a published author when she was just 12 years old. Her picture book is titled Raise Your Hand.
In 2022, Alice revealed to CNN that she almost died from a misdiagnosed appendicitis.