Barney Frank, longtime Mass. congressman, has died
Barney Frank — a decades-long fixture in Massachusetts Democratic politics, a veteran US House member, a pioneering gay-rights advocate, and a number one determine within the battle to get better from the 2008 Great Recession — died Tuesday night in his Ogunquit, Maine, house of problems from congestive coronary heart failure. He was 86.
His demise was confirmed by Jim Segel, a longtime good friend of Mr. Frank’s.
Unlike main Bay State political figures corresponding to Henry Cabot Lodge, John F. Kennedy, and Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr., Mr. Frank was an influential figure within the three dimensions of native, state, and nationwide politics. He left his fingerprints on how Boston is ruled, how the Legislature operates on Beacon Hill, and the way the House works on Capitol Hill.
His attain additionally extends into the American economic system and the American tradition, into how Wall Street operates and the way excessive finance is regulated.
And in a 1987 Boston Globe interviewhe turned the primary member of Congress to publicly come out as homosexual voluntarily.
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