Congressman Barney Frank, who is retiring, was regularly voted "brainiest" and "funniest" member of Congress by Washingtonian magazine.
"On a scale of 1 to 10, he's a 10," Jamie Dimon, the chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase told U.S. Banker. "In terms of knowledge, brains, understanding – he's way up there."
Yet for all his work on headline-catching issues, local officials admire him for his constituent services and attention to small-town problems.
He helped force the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Shpack dump in Norton, worked to block liquidified natural gas tankers from going up the Taunton River, and fought to preserve the New Bedford fishing industry.
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