John Lindsay
 John Lindsay    (lawyer, politician, broadcaster) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | John Vliet Lindsay November 24, 1921 New York City, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | December 19, 2000 (Age 79) Hilton Head Island, South Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | US | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Buckley School, St. Paul's School, Yale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Episcopalian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Mary Harrison Lindsay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Bohemian Grove, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Republican, Democratic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Attended the 1965 Bilderberg meeting before becoming Mayor of New York City in 1966 with support of the Rockefeller family.
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John Vliet Lindsay was an American politician and lawyer. He attended the 1965 Bilderberg meeting before becoming Mayor of New York City in 1966 with support of the Rockefeller family.
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Background
Lindsay was born in New York City in an upper-middle-class family.[1].[2][3] Lindsay's father was a successful lawyer and investment banker.[1]
Education
Lindsay attended the Buckley School, St. Paul's School, and Yale,[1] where he was admitted to the class of 1944 and joined Scroll and Key.[4]
With the outbreak of World War II, Lindsay completed his studies early and in 1943 joined the United States Navy as a gunnery officer. He obtained the rank of lieutenant, participating in the invasion of Sicily and a series of landings in the Pacific theater.[5][6] [2] He received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1948.[2] There he also met Herbert Brownell Jr. a New York lawyer who was active in the Republican Party. This helped him to find his first job as a lawyer in the firm of Webster, Sheffield & Chrystie and introduced him to the Republicans.
Marriage
Back in New York City, Lindsay met his future wife, Mary Anne Harrison (1926–2004), at the wedding of Nancy Walker Bush (daughter of Connecticut's Senator Prescott Bush and sister of future President George Herbert Walker Bush and aunt of George W. Bush & Jeb Bush),[2] where he was an usher and Harrison a bridesmaid.[2] They married in 1949.[4]
Career
In 1949 he was admitted to the bar. His mentor Brownell helped him to find his first job as a lawyer in the firm of Webster, Sheffield & Chrystie and introduced him to the Republican Party. Lindsay became a partner in his law firm four years later.[6] They had three daughters and a son.[7][8]
In the following period, Lindsay made a political career. In 1949 he became chairman of the New York Young Republican Club, in 1951 he was involved in the creation of the Youth for Eisenhower movement.[9] Lindsay's political involvement impressed his mentor Brownell so much that he brought him to the Ministry of Justice, where Brownell was Attorney General in the Eisenhower Administration from 1953. From 1955, Lindsay was Brownell's most important adviser and his liaison to the White House and to Congress.
In 1958, with the support of Brownell, Lindsay ran as a Republican for the congressional elections in the 17th Congressional District of New York. In the primaries, he narrowly defeated his intra-party rival Elliot H. Goodwin, and later in the general election, his Democratic challenger Anthony B. Akers. Lindsay was elected to Congress a total of four times.
As a congressman, he was a progressive and often voted for Democratic legislative initiatives, especially in the areas of civil rights, immigration issues, housing and school construction, and development aid.[10] In 1960, he introduced a bill to create a Department of Urban Affairs, and in 1962, a bill to implement a plan of New York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller for a state health care for seniors.
However, due to his views, he increasingly isolated himself from his Republican party friends and was looking for a new field of political activity. In 1965, he ran for mayor ofNew York City, succeeding Robert F. Wagner, who was no longer a candidate. Although his starting position as a Republican was difficult in the traditionally Democratic-dominated city, he was able to prevail against his Democratic challenger Abraham D. Beame and the conservative candidate William F. Buckley and was elected as the mayor in early 1966.
In addition to a well-run election campaign and the progressive political program he had represented in New York, the decisive factors for his election success were, not least, the support of the Republican governor Rockefeller and the equally Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits as well as a campaign fund of 1.5 million US dollars.
Mayor of New York City
Lindsay was Mayor of New York City from January 1, 1966, to January 1, 1974. His mayoralty presided over a rising budget from below $5 billion to almost $10 billion, high deficit spending, the reorganization of the city's government, a corruption investigation (Knapp Commission) into the New York City Police Department, and large scale union strikes.
In a 1972 Gallup poll, 60% of New Yorkers felt Lindsay's administration was working poorly, nine percent rated it good, and not one person thought its performance excellent.[11] By 1978, The New York Times called Lindsay "an exile in his own city".[12]
Later career
Lindsay was mentioned as a Republican Vice Presidential possibility in 1968, but was found to be unacceptable by Southern conservatives, and Spiro Agnew was nominated instead. Lindsay’s original break with the Republican Party began immediately after he failed to win the 1969 Republican mayoral primary, and his subsequent association with the New York Liberal Party for that election. In 1971, Lindsay and his wife cut ties with the Republican Party by registering with the Democratic Party. Lindsay then launched a brief and unsuccessful bid for the [US/1972 Presidential Election|1972 Democratic presidential nomination]].
Attempting a political comeback in 1980, Lindsay made a long-shot bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from New York, and finished third.
An appointment by John Lindsay
| Appointee | Job | Appointed | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Hamilton | New York City/Deputy Mayor | 1971 | 1973 |
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilderberg/1965 | 2 April 1965 | 4 April 1965 | Italy Villa d'Este | The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy |
References
- ↑ a b c https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/21/nyregion/john-v-lindsay-mayor-and-maverick-dies-at-79.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all
- ↑ a b c d e Cannato, Vincent (June 20, 2001). The Ungovernable City. Basic Books. p. 720.
- ↑ https://www.geni.com/people/Dirck-Jans-1612-van-der-Vliet/6000000012536917392
- ↑ a b https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0A17F8355F167B93C3A8178BD95F4C8485F9
- ↑ https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0D15F63D5A117B93C1A81783D85F4C8585F9
- ↑ a b https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F50817FD355E1A7B93C7A9178AD95F4D8685F9
- ↑ https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/04/01/The-narcotics-arrest-of-John-Lindsay-Jr-the-son/1449418021200/
- ↑ Summer in the City – John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream. Edited by Joseph P. Viteritti (2014)
- ↑ https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F00717FF3F59107B93C7A9178AD95F4C8585F9
- ↑ https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/86-1960/h106
- ↑ https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/07/29/404916231.pdf
- ↑ https://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F00710FB385A13728DDDA10894D9405B888BF1D3
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