Barney Frank (D)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Massachusetts (4)
- Birth Date: March 31, 1940
- Occupation: Attorney
- Religion: Jewish
- Web site: http://www.house.gov/frank
Education
- Harvard College, AB
- Harvard Law School, JD
Barney Frank was born in Bayonne, N.J. and resides in Newton, Mass. He received a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1962 and a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1977.
After working as an instructor at Harvard, Frank served as chief of staff to Boston Mayor Kevin White from 1967 to 1971. He was chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Michael Harrington, D-Mass., from 1971 to 1972. Frank went on to represent Boston's liberal Back Bay and Beacon Hill in the Massachusetts Legislature from 1973 to 1980.
He was elected to the U.S. House in 1980.
Frank one of three openly gay members of Congress.
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