Frank's Papers to Be In UMass-Dartmouth's Archives

Barney Frank's personal papers, notes and other memorabilia from his 32-year congressional career wll be housed in the creation of archives at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. The announcement was made Tuesday.

"The people of Southeastern Massachusetts for 30 years have been such an important part of my life. They've not just been voters, but they've been friends, they've been people I've learned from, they've been people with whom I've worked with together on common problems," said Frank in an interview on myfoxboston.com. 

Frank, who elected to retire rather than run for another term this year after his district was re-drawn, was on campus yesterday as the university is celebrating the inauguration celebration for Chancellor Divina Grossman.

The achieves will also include his papers from when he served in the Massachusetts State Legislature and be in the Claire T. Carney Library.

"It seemed to me by donating my papers I could help the university, maybe help it attract some scholars and quite frankly help a region that I care about very deeply," said Frank on the FOX-25 news.