Philip Lindeman II (October 1, 1925 – December 26, 2011), was an

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politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1960 to 1962.

Biography

He was born on October 1, 1925. Lindeman was a 1948 graduate of

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and a 1951 graduate of

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'' Bloomberg Business Week''. Accessed December 1, 2013. He was elected to the Assembly in 1959, at the age of 34. He ran for one of 12 At-Large Essex County Assembly seats. Lindeman finished fourth in a field of 24 candidates, receiving 115,361 votes. He sought re-election to a second term in 1961, but lost to Democrat John J. Miller, Jr. by nearly 10,000 votes. He was a partner at the Newark law form of Hellring, Lindeman, Goldstein & Siegal, LLP before retiring to Manhattan and Nantucket. He died on December 26, 2011, and was buried at the Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket.

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