Vic Franckiewicz Jr.

Victor John Franckiewicz Jr. (born 1954 or 1955) is an American lawyer and former politician. He studied urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving Bachelor of Science and MCP degrees. After serving as mayor of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi from 1985 to 1989, he succeeded Gene Taylor in the Mississippi State Senate when Taylor won a special election to the U.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 from Tulane 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.