John Lindsay
U.S. Congressperson
1921 – 2000
Who was John Lindsay?
John Vliet Lindsay was an American politician, lawyer and broadcaster who was a U.S. congressman, mayor of New York City, candidate for U.S. president and regular guest host of Good Morning America.
During his political career, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from January 1959 to December 1965 and as mayor of New York City from January 1966 to December 1973. He switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party in 1971, and launched a brief and unsuccessful bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination as well as the 1980 Democratic nomination for Senator from New York. He died from Parkinson's disease and pneumonia in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on December 19, 2000.
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- Born
- Nov 24, 1921
Manhattan - Also known as
- Mayor John V. Lindsay
- Mayor John Lindsay
- John V. Lindsay
- John Vliet Lindsay
- Parents
- Spouses
- Mary Anne Harrison Lindsay
(1949/06/18 - 2000/12/19)
- Mary Anne Harrison Lindsay
- Children
- Religion
- Protestantism
- Episcopal Church
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- St. Paul's School
- Law degree, Yale Law School
( - 1948) - Bachelor's degree, Yale College
( - 1944) - Yale University
- Died
- Dec 19, 2000
Hilton Head Island
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on July 23, 2013
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