Barney Frank

Barney Frank (born March 31, 1940, Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.—died May 19, 2026, Ogunquit, Maine, U.S.) was an American Democratic politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–2013) and was one of the first openly gay members of Congress. Born Barnett Frank—he legally changed his name to Barney in the 1960s—he was raised in a Jewish working-class family in New Jersey. He excelled at writing and debate in high school, and he attended...