John Howard Lindauer II (1937- )

John Howard Lindauer II (born on November 20, 1937 in Montclair, New Jersey) was the Republican Party candidate for Governor of Alaska in 1998. He is the father of Susan Lindauer. He has lived in Alaska since 1976.

He was the son of Louise (1905-c2004) and John Howard Lindauer I (1905-1954) and was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He attended North Phoenix High School from 1951 to 1954 and Arizona State University from 1958 to 1960 where he received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He later attended Oklahoma State University from 1960 to 1964 where he received a Ph.D. in Economics. He served in the US Army for three years and spent five years in the Army Reserve. He then moved to Alaska and served as Chancellor for the University of Alaska from 1976 to 1978 then was Dean of the School of Business and Public Affairs. He served as a Pipeline Commissioner, and later worked at the Alaska Post-Secondary Education Commission. He was president and publisher of Alaska Rural Newspapers which publishes ten newspapers; and president of Denali Broadcasting and the Alaska Radio Network which owns five radio stations. He is a Fulbright Professor of Economics in India.

In 1990, he was the Alaska Independence Party's gubernatorial nominee and he abruptly withdrew from the campaign, purportedly after the illness of his first wife, Jackie (1932-1992).

Campaign for Governor of Alaska
In 1998 he ran for Governor of Alaska and received 18% of the vote. Tony Knowles won with 51% and Robin Taylor, a Republican Party write-in candidate split the vote when he received 20%. He spent more than $1.7 million, and Lindauer denied it had come from Dorothy A. Oremus, the wealthy Chicago lawyer he married in 1995. Dorothy is the daughter of John A. Oremus (1913-2002) and Angeline Mularski (1916-1983) and she is a partner in the law firm of Hamblet, Oremus & Little. As the investigation grew, John Lindauer admitted that Dorothy had guaranteed a loan and given him cash to pay for the bulk of his campaign.

Publications

 * Macroeconomics (1968) ISBN 0471535729
 * Macroeconomic Readings (1969) ASIN B000HCSLC0
 * Economics: A modern view (1977) ISBN 978-0721657776
 * Effects of Selected Methods to Improve Unemployment Rates Used to Identify Depressed Areas; Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Volume 20, Number 3 (April, 1967), pp. 433-440
 * The Accuracy of Area Unemployment Estimates Used to Identify Depressed Areas; Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Volume 19, Number 3 (April, 1966), pp. 377-389