John Howard Lindauer II (born November 20, 1937) is an American economist who served as chancellor for the

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from 1976 to 1978 then was Dean of the School of Business and Public Affairs. He was the Republican Party candidate for

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in 1998, but ultimately ended up pleading

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to campaign finance violations. He is the father of

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and John Howard Lindauer III, and lived in Alaska from 1976 until 2002. He currently resides in

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Biography

Lindauer was born on November 20, 1937 to Louise (1910–2004) and John Howard Lindauer I (1905–1954) in

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. He attended North Phoenix High School from 1951 to 1954 and

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from where he received a

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. He later attended

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where he received a

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. He served in the

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for three years and spent five years in the

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. Lindauer was

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of economics at

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from 1964 to 1966. Then he became an

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and

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and the

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from 1966 to 1974.

Alaska

He then moved to Alaska and served as chancellor for the

from 1976 to 1978 then was

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of the School of Business and Public Affairs. Lindauer served as one of the state commissioners for the

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, 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 Lindauer won a seat for District 10 in the

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. He was a member of the House Finance Committee. 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. In the 1998 election, Lindauer won the Republican primary to run for

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. 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

to charges stemming from campaign finance problems. As a result, he received a one-year

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, 100 hours of community service, 2 years of probation, and a $15,000 fine. After the sentence, he stated through his lawyer that he would move back to Chicago.

Select publications

* Macroeconomics (1968, 1972, 1976), * 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

References

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