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Barney Frank

Politician

Barney Frank is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Barney Frank · Bārnijs Frenks · Барни Фрэнк · ברני פרנק · بارنى فرانك · 5 more...				[sources]
Alias	Barnett Frank · Bārnijs Frenks · Frank, Barney · Барни Фрэнк · ברני פרנק · 5 more...				[sources]
Weak alias	Frank				[sources]
Birth date	1940-03-31				[sources]
Place of birth	Bayonne				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	United States				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (past) · State government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Barney				[sources]
Last name	Frank				[sources]
Political association	Democratic Party				[sources]
Website	www.house.gov · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q537287				[sources]
Position	House of Representatives (member, 2005-2007) · House of Representatives (member, 2007-2009) · House of Representatives (member, 2009-2011) · House of Representatives (member, 2011-2013) · member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives · 18 more...				[sources]
Education	Bayonne High School (-1957) · Harvard College · Harvard Law School (-1977) · Harvard University (-1962)				[sources]
Religion	atheism				[sources]
Last change	2025-12-20	Last processed	2025-12-20	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

American politician, former member of the House of Representatives for Massachusetts

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States representative	2005	2007
United States representative	2009-01-06

Data sources

MySociety's EveryPolitician Dataset of National Legislators57,731

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

US Members of the Congress1,318

Current and recent members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives

United States · Congress

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories384,631

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata355,547

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions552,126

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: us-congress-e47df05d96fea3856dfd9160eab26da200014153 · evpo-e588d516-3c16-498c-9918-30abe28e39b4

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