John Howard Lindauer II (born November 20, 1937) is an American economist who served as chancellor for the University of Alaska Anchorage from 1976 to 1978 then was Dean of the School of Business and Public Affairs. He was the Republican Party candidate for governor of Alaska in 1998, but ultimately ended up pleading no contest to campaign finance violations.[1][2][3] He is the father of Susan Lindauer and John Howard Lindauer III, and lived in Alaska from 1976 until 2002. He currently resides in Chicago.
He then moved to Alaska and served as chancellor for the University of Alaska Anchorage from 1976 to 1978 then was dean of the School of Business and Public Affairs.[4]
Lindauer served as one of the state commissioners for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, and later worked at the Alaska Post-Secondary Education Commission. With his wife, Jacqueline Lindauer, he was the co-publisher of Alaska Rural Newspapers which published ten newspapers.[1][5] He was builder and president of Denali Broadcasting and the Alaska Radio Network which owns five radio stations.[6]
In 1982 Lindauer won a seat for District 10 in the Alaska House of Representatives. He was a member of the House Finance Committee.[6][7] As a member of the party Alaskans for Independence, he started to run for Governor of Alaska in 1990, but withdrew from the campaign after the illness of his wife.[8][9]
In the 1998 election, Lindauer won the Republican primary to run for Governor of Alaska. Leading up to the election he spent $1.7 million on his campaign. However, it was later revealed that nearly all the money he spent on the election came from his wife and was not his own money. Later, he pleaded no contest to charges stemming from campaign finance problems. As a result, he received a one-year suspended sentence, 100 hours of community service, 2 years of probation, and a $15,000 fine.[3][10] After the sentence, he stated through his lawyer that he would move back to Chicago.[10]
^"Lindauer Papers On Block Publisher. Politician Wants To Spend Time With Family". Anchorage Daily News. July 24, 1991. Retrieved 2010-12-26. After a decade in the publishing business, former Independence Party gubernatorial candidate John Lindauer has put his eight rural weekly newspapers up for sale. Lindauer said he decided to sell the papers "for the same reason that I dropped out of the governor's race. My wife is very ill, so we thought we would test the market." He would not specify the asking price. ... Lindauer's Alaska Rural Newspapers also publishes the statewide Alaska Commercial Fisherman the largest paper in his group and a new 40,000 circulation ...
^"Candidates For House". Anchorage Daily News. June 15, 1984. Retrieved 2010-03-23. John Lindauer, a former chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage is completing his first term in the House. He was a member of the House Finance Committee ...
