Frank L. Roberts
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| Member of the Oregon Senate from the 9th district |
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In office 1975–1993 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas R. Mahoney |
| Succeeded by | Randy Leonard |
| Member of the Oregon House of Representatives from the 6th district |
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In office 1967–1971 |
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| Preceded by | candidates elected at-large |
| Succeeded by | Glenn Otto |
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December 28, 1915 Boise, Idaho |
| Died | October 31, 1993 (aged 77) Salem, Oregon |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Louise Roberts (1943–1960) Betty Roberts (1960–1965) Barbara Roberts (1974–1993) |
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Mary Wendy Roberts Leslie Roberts |
| Profession | Politician |
Frank Livezey Roberts (December 28, 1915 – October 31, 1993) was an American politician from the state of Oregon. A Democrat, Roberts served in both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly. He served two terms in the Oregon House of Representatives and most of five terms in the Oregon Senate before resigning due to poor health. Roberts was married three times, including to Barbara Roberts, who was the first woman to serve as Governor of Oregon, and to Betty Roberts, who was the first woman to serve as a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court.
Roberts was born in Boise, Idaho, in 1915 to Walter Scott and Mary Livezey Roberts. He received a bachelor's degree from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon in 1938. In 1943, he married Mary Louise Charleson. Later that year, he earned a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In 1946, he was hired as a speech professor at Vanport College (later renamed Portland State University). He earned a doctorate from Stanford University in 1954.
Roberts and his wife Mary Louise had two daughters, Mary Wendy Roberts and Leslie Roberts. The couple divorced prior to 1960, the year Frank married Betty Cantrell Rice, then a single mother of four and teacher in Portland.
In 1960, Roberts was elected chairman of the Multnomah County Democratic Party. He ran unsuccessfully for the Oregon State Senate in 1962, but was successful in his second attempt at elective office, winning a seat in the Oregon House of Representatives in 1966. He was re-elected to a second term, but in 1970, redistricting forced him to run in another district and he lost in the Democratic primary. Roberts again unsuccessfully sought election to the Oregon House in 1972, but when an open Senate seat was available in 1974, he was elected to the first of six four-year terms representing District 4 in Portland. At the time of his retirement in 1993, Roberts was the longest-serving Oregon legislator.
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