Vic Franckiewicz Jr. | |
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| Member of theMississippi State Senate from the 46th district | |
| In office November 29, 1989 – January 5, 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Gene Taylor |
| Succeeded by | Bill Johnson |
| Mayor ofBay St. Louis, Mississippi | |
| In office July 1, 1985 – July 1, 1989 | |
| Preceded by | Larry Bennett |
| Succeeded by | Eddie Favre |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1954 or 1955 (age 70–71) |
| Political party | Democratic |
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Victor John Franckiewicz Jr. (born 1954 or 1955)[1] is an American lawyer and former politician. He studied urban planning at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology, receivingBachelor of Science andMCP degrees. After serving as mayor ofBay St. Louis, Mississippi from 1985 to 1989, he succeededGene Taylor in theMississippi State Senate when Taylor won a special election to theU.S. House of Representatives. Though elected to a full term in 1991, Franckiewicz chose not to run the following year, after a federal court panel mandated new redistricting and elections for the entire state legislature. Franckiewicz graduated fromTulane University Law School in 1993 and pursued a legal career thereafter. He eventually moving to Louisiana with his wife, Cheryl Bencaz, who he married in 1992.[2]