Barney Frank, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Barney Frank

American politician, former member of the House of Representatives for Massachusetts

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1940

Place of Birth: Bayonne, New Jersey, United States

Profession: politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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About Barney Frank

  • Barnett Frank (born March 31, 1940) is an American former politician.
  • He served as a member of the U.S.
  • House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013.
  • A Democrat, Frank served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee (2007–2011) and was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act, a sweeping reform of the U.S.
  • financial industry.
  • Frank, a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, was considered the most prominent gay politician in the United States.Born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey, Frank graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
  • He worked as a political aide before winning election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1972.
  • He was elected to the U.S.
  • House of Representatives in 1980 with 52 percent of the vote.
  • He was re-elected every term thereafter by wide margins.
  • In 1987, he publicly came out as gay, becoming the first member of Congress to do so voluntarily.
  • From 2003 until his retirement, Frank was the leading Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, and he served as committee chairman when his party held a House majority from 2007 to 2011.
  • In July 2012, he married his long-time partner, James Ready, becoming the first member of Congress to marry someone of the same sex while in office.
  • Frank did not seek re-election in 2012, and retired from Congress at the end of his term in January 2013.
  • A biography of Frank was published in 2015.

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