John Howard Lindauer

{{Short description|American economist and politician (born 1937)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = John Lindauer

|image = John Howard Lindauer portrait.jpg

|state_house = Alaska

|district = 10B

|term_start = January 1983

|term_end = January 1985

|predecessor = ???

|successor = Virginia Collins

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|11|20}}

|birth_place = Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = Republican {{small|(Before 1990; 1997–present)}}
Independence {{small|(1990–1997)}}

|spouse = Jackie {{small|(1932–1992)}}
Dorothy Oremus

|children = 2, Susan

|education = Arizona State University, Tempe (BS)
Oklahoma State University (MA, PhD)

}}

John Howard Lindauer II (born November 20, 1937) is an American economist who served as chancellor for the University of Alaska Anchorage from 1976 to 1978 then was Dean of the School of Business and Public Affairs. He was the Republican Party candidate for governor of Alaska in 1998, but ultimately ended up pleading no contest to campaign finance violations.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://100years.akleg.gov/bio.php?id=1250 |title=John Lindauer |date=2013 |accessdate=2015-01-15 |encyclopedia=100 Years of Alaska's Legislature |publisher=State of Alaska }}{{cite news |title=Ex-Alaska Candidate Gets Plea Deal |url=https://apnews.com/45f65d214484fc50b03c0070b56f65c0 |work=Associated Press |date=January 7, 2000 |accessdate=2014-07-28}} He is the father of Susan Lindauer and John Howard Lindauer III, and lived in Alaska from 1976 until 2002. He currently resides in Chicago.

Biography

Lindauer was born on November 20, 1937, to Louise (1910–2004) and John Howard Lindauer I (1905–1954) in Montclair, New Jersey. He attended North Phoenix High School from 1951 to 1954 and Arizona State University from where he received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He later attended Oklahoma State University where he received a Ph.D. in economics.{{cite web |url=http://www.gov.state.ak.us/ltgov/elections/1998oep/98govl.htm |title=John Howard Lindauer |accessdate=2008-08-17 |publisher=State of Alaska |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20000110200820/http://www.gov.state.ak.us/ltgov/elections/1998oep/98govl.htm |archive-date = 2000-01-10}}

He served in the United States Army for three years and spent five years in the Army Reserve.

Lindauer was assistant professor of economics at Occidental College from 1964 to 1966. Then he became an associate professor and full professor at Claremont McKenna College and the Claremont Graduate School from 1966 to 1974.

= Alaska =

He then moved to Alaska and served as chancellor for the University of Alaska Anchorage from 1976 to 1978 then was dean of the School of Business and Public Affairs.{{cite news |title=Lindauer Eyes Pipeline Post |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1828&dat=19780113&id=GzEeAAAAIBAJ&pg=3114,1046427 |quote=Lindauer, chancellor of the University of Alaska, Anchorage, is one of two candidates ... |work=Anchorage Daily News |date=January 13, 1978 |accessdate=2010-03-23 }}

Lindauer served as one of the state commissioners for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, and later worked at the Alaska Post-Secondary Education Commission. With his wife, Jacqueline Lindauer, he was the co-publisher of Alaska Rural Newspapers which published ten newspapers.{{cite news |title=Lindauer Papers On Block Publisher. Politician Wants To Spend Time With Family |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AS&p_theme=as&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F78E494208BC68D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |quote=After a decade in the publishing business, former Independence Party gubernatorial candidate John Lindauer has put his eight rural weekly newspapers up for sale. Lindauer said he decided to sell the papers "for the same reason that I dropped out of the governor's race. My wife is very ill, so we thought we would test the market." He would not specify the asking price. ... Lindauer's Alaska Rural Newspapers also publishes the statewide Alaska Commercial Fisherman the largest paper in his group and a new 40,000 circulation ... |newspaper=Anchorage Daily News |date=July 24, 1991 |accessdate=2010-12-26 }} He was builder and president of Denali Broadcasting and the Alaska Radio Network which owns five radio stations.

In 1982 Lindauer won a seat for District 10 in the Alaska House of Representatives. He was a member of the House Finance Committee.{{cite news |title=District 10 race one of the spiciest |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=H9MhAAAAIBAJ&pg=1349,5600907&dq=lindauer+alaska&hl=en |quote=Lindauer, is now the owner of the Alaska Radio Network. Opponent Beirne, has raised less than he has spent so far on the campaign. ... |work=Anchorage Daily News |date=August 13, 1982 |accessdate=2010-03-23 }}{{cite news |title=Candidates For House |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Pf0jAAAAIBAJ&pg=1442,7623892&dq=lindauer+alaska&hl=en |quote=John Lindauer, a former chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage is completing his first term in the House. He was a member of the House Finance Committee ... |work=Anchorage Daily News |date=June 15, 1984 |accessdate=2010-03-23 }} As a member of the party Alaskans for Independence, he started to run for Governor of Alaska in 1990, but withdrew from the campaign after the illness of his wife.{{Cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Maralee |date=21 September 1990 |title=Hickel comeback bid angers Republicans |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/09/21/hickel-comeback-bid-angers-republicans/6dab740e-8e36-4e1f-9ceb-b0953e5739aa/ |access-date=9 January 2023}}{{Cite web |title=Alaskan Independence Party - Introduction |url=https://www.akip.org/introduction.html |access-date=2023-01-09 |website=www.akip.org}}

In the 1998 election, Lindauer won the Republican primary to run for Governor of Alaska. Leading up to the election he spent $1.7 million on his campaign. However, it was later revealed that nearly all the money he spent on the election came from his wife and was not his own money. Later, he pleaded no contest to charges stemming from campaign finance problems. As a result, he received a one-year suspended sentence, 100 hours of community service, 2 years of probation, and a $15,000 fine.{{Cite web |date=7 January 2000 |title=Ex-Alaska Candidate Gets Plea Deal |url=https://apnews.com/article/45f65d214484fc50b03c0070b56f65c0 |access-date=2023-01-09 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}} After the sentence, he stated through his lawyer that he would move back to Chicago.

Select publications

Macroeconomics (1968, 1972, 1976), {{ISBN|0-471-53572-9}}
Stabilization Inflation and the Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off
Land Taxation and Indian Economic Development (with Sarjit Singh) 1974
The General Theories of Inflation, Unemployment, and Government Deficits 1968, reissued 2012