Barney Frank, Key Lawmaker in Financial Crisis, Dies at 86 (1)

Barney Frank, the quick-witted Democratic congressman who found himself on the front lines of the government’s rescue of the American financial system in 2007 and 2008, has died. He was 86.

Barney Frank in 2004.

Photographer: Dennis Brack/Bloomberg

He died on Tuesday at his home in Ogunquit, Maine, the Boston Globe reported, citing a longtime friend, Jim Segel. Politico had reported in April that he had entered hospice care at home while dealing with congestive heart failure and writing one last book.

Frank was well into his third decade representing Massachusetts’ fourth district — and well known as the first member of Congress to have ...