biography
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Lindsay, John (Vliet)
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| lived:
| (1921–2000)
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| biography:
| Mayor and US representative, born in Queens, New York, USA. He studied at Yale University and Yale Law School, and became executive assistant US attorney general (1955–6) and a three-term member of the House of Representatives from New York City's ‘Silk Stocking’ district on the Upper East Side (Republican, 1959–65). A liberal Republican in 1971, during his first term as mayor of New York (1966–74), he changed his affiliation to Democrat, then ran unsuccessfully in the 1972 presidential primaries. He left public life to practise law and became a presiding partner in the law firm of Webster & Sheffield (1984). He wrote several books including The City (1970). |
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