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John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921–December 19, 2000) was an American politician who served as a Congressman (1959-1966) and mayor of New York City (1966-1973).
A liberal Republican, John Lindsay was an upper class Anglo-Protestant lawyer trying to govern a working class and ethnic city. Controversial as mayor, Lindsay is credited with helping the city survive the 1960s without a major riot, but his policies were directly responsible for its fiscal crisis of the late 1970s.
Lindsay was a liberal at a time when the cracks in the liberal coalition were becoming chasms. Nationally, working class white ethnics felt that they were disproportionately paying the "costs" of integration. The mainstream civil rights movement of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the NAACP was losing its footing, being overshadowed by the radicalism of H. Rap Brown, Sonny Carson, and the Black Panthers. Public sector unions refused to continue as "involuntary philanthropists" and began to make demands on the City that would severely hurt its ability to provide services. Overall, it was during Lindsay's tenure that New York became "the ungovernable city" and the job as mayor of New York became known as "the second toughest job in America".
Early life John Lindsay was born in New York City on West End Avenue to George and Florence Vliet Lindsay. Contrary to popular assumptions, John Lindsay was neither a blue-blood nor very wealthy. Lindsay's paternal grandfather immigrated to the United States in the 1880s from the Isle of Wight, and his mother's family was only upper middle class. John's father, however, was a successful lawyer, and was able to send his son to Buckley, St. Paul's School, and Yale, where he was inducted into the famous secret society, Scroll and Key. Lindsay also received a law degree from Yale.
After service in World War II, Lindsay practiced law for a few years before gravitating towards politics.
Elected to Congress as a Republican from the "Silk Stocking" district in 1958, Lindsay established a liberal voting record, known for his strong support of civil rights legislation. In 1965 Lindsay successfully ran for mayor as a Republican in a three-way race (although he became a Democrat in 1971), defeating the Democratic candidate Abe Beame, then City Controller, as well as National Review founder William F. Buckley, Jr., who ran on the Conservative line.
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