Name John Lindauer Party Republican Party | Children Susan Lindauer | |
 Born November 20, 1937 (age 86) ( 1937-11-20 ) Montclair, New Jersey Occupation Economist, Publisher,Chancellor for the University of Alaska (1976-1978) Parent(s) Louise (1905 – c.2004)John Howard Lindauer I (1905 – 1954) Residence Chicago, Illinois, United States Spouse Dorothy Oremus (m. 1995), Jackie Howard Books Macroeconomics, Economics: A Modern View Education Arizona State University, Oklahoma State University–Stillwater | ||
John Howard Lindauer II (born November 20, 1937) is an 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. 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.
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He was born on November 20, 1937 to Louise (1905–c.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.
He served in the United States Army for three years and spent five years in the Army Reserve.
He 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.
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.
He 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. He was builder and president of Denali Broadcasting and the Alaska Radio Network which owns five radio stations.
In 1982 he won a seat for District 10 in the Alaska House of Representatives. He was a member of the House Finance Committee.
In the 1998 election, he 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.