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Barnett "Barney" Frank (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he 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, is considered the most prominent gay politician in the United States.〔 * (【引用サイトリンク】title=Barney Frank Biography ) * * * * 〕 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, after coming out to family, friends and close associates a few years prior, 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. Frank had expressed interest in serving temporarily in the United States Senate after John Kerry had been confirmed as Secretary of State but was ultimately passed over for Mo Cowan. A biography of Frank was published in 2015.〔http://us.macmillan.com/frank/barneyfrank〕〔https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2015/03/16/book-review-frank-life-politics-from-great-society-same-sex-marriage-barney-frank/pcULlWUpdM4DgLgurxbc3L/story.html〕 ==Early life, education, and early career== Frank was born Barnett Frank in Bayonne, New Jersey, one of four children of Elsie (''née'' Golush) and Samuel Frank. His family was Jewish, and his grandparents had immigrated from Poland and Russia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=barney frank )〕 Frank’s father ran a truck stop in Jersey City—a place Frank has described as "totally corrupt"—and when Frank was 6 or 7, served a year in prison for refusing to testify to a grand jury against Frank’s uncle.〔 Frank was educated at Harvard College, where he resided in Matthews Hall his first year and then in Kirkland House and Winthrop House. He graduated in 1962. One of his roommates was Hastings Wyman of Aiken, South Carolina, later a political consultant who in 1978 began publishing ''The Southern Political Report''. When Wyman invited Frank to visit in Aiken in the early 1960s, Frank made a point of drinking from the since-abolished "colored-only" water fountain then available to African Americans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mercer R. Book and Maya Jonas-Silver, "Barney Frank", May 21, 2012 )〕 Frank’s undergraduate studies were interrupted by the death of his father, and Frank took a year off to help resolve the family’s affairs prior to his graduation.〔 In 1964, he was a volunteer in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.〔Bruce Watson, Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy, at 161–162 (Viking 2010).〕 He taught undergraduates at Harvard while studying for a PhD in Government, but left in 1968 before having completed the degree, to become Boston mayor Kevin White’s Chief Assistant, a position he held for three years. He then served for a year as Administrative Assistant to Congressman Michael J. Harrington. Frank later graduated from Harvard Law School, in 1977, where he was once a student of Henry Kissinger,〔, November 14, 2011〕 while serving as Massachusetts State Representative. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barney Frank」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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