Barney Frank’s death: What happened to the former U.S. representative and gay rights icon? All about health issues

He will be remembered as a pioneer for LGBT rights, the first member of Congress to enter into a same-sex marriage and for his role in reforming financial regulation after the 2008 financial crisis.

“More than anything, he was a great brother. I was lucky to be his sister,” Frank’s sister Doris Bray said in an interview with NBC Boston.

“He informed everyone that he was in hospice care, so it was just a matter of time. He’s certainly at peace with himself,” Frank’s former campaign manager Jim Siegel told Axios.

“He really left a mark, he was a leader on civil rights, gay rights and other marginalized communities, and then he helped the country through the 2008 financial crisis, which was the worst recession and depression almost since 1930,” Siegel said.

In an interview at the time, he told the media, “At 86, I’m going to live longer than I thought,” further noting that “at some point, my heart was about to give out and it got to that stage. So I was relaxing at home and coping with it by relaxing.”