Frank Ivancie

Francis James Ivancie (July 19, 1924 – May 2, 2019) was an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Portland, Oregon, from 1980 to 1985. Prior to his term as mayor, Ivancie served for fourteen years on the Portland City Council. After his retirement from elected office, Ivancie remained active in community affairs, occasionally lending his support to political causes. During his political career, Ivancie was a conservative Democrat. Education and career before politics Frank Ivancie was born in Marble, Minnesota. His father was an immigrant from Ljubljana, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia). He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in sociology. He subsequently moved to Oregon, where he earned a master's degree in education from the University of Oregon. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Forces. After the war, Ivancie began working as a teacher in Burns, Oregon where he met his future wife Eileen O'Toole with whom he had 10 children. He moved to Washington County, in the Portland metropolitan area, to take a position as principal of Orenco School, in Orenco, Oregon. After a period in the 1950s working in England as principal of an American school run by the Department of Defense, Ivancie returned to Oregon and taught for Portland Public Schools. He left teaching in 1956 when hired as executive assistant to then-mayor-elect Terry Schrunk. Early political career Ivancie was first elected to the Portland City Council in 1966, filling a vacancy on the Council when Ormond Bean did not run for re-election to the post. He took office on January 4, 1967. He was re-elected to the Council several times, in 1970, 1974, and 1978, only serving the first two years of his final term.