(FILES) Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee Massachussetts Representative Barney Frank bangs his gavel during a hearing on the Lehman Brothers collapse with US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Ben Bernanke and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mary Schapiro on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 20, 2010. Acccording to US media reports on May 20, 2026, former US Representative Barney Frank, Democrat from Massachusetts, has died at the age of 86. Frank was one of the first openly gay members of the US Congress and a leading champion of Wall Street reform following the 2008 financial crisis, helping pass the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. (Photo by Saul LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)