Longtime former congressman Barney Frank, 'deeply grounded in Jewish values and traditions,' dies at 86

(JNS) — Barney Frank, a former House Financial Services Committee chair and Democrat who represented Massachusetts’s 4th Congressional District from 1981 to 2013, died on Tuesday night. He was 86 years old.

The late Jewish congressman had been in hospice in recent months at home in Ogunquit, Maine, and was treated for congestive heart failure, NBC reported, citing Frank’s sister and a close friend.

Frank is known for co-authoring the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act with then senator Chris Dodd in 2009 to reform the financial services industry.

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