John Howard Lindauer
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John Howard Lindauer II served as Chancellor for the University of Alaska Anchorage
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The University of Alaska Anchorage is the largest school of the University of Alaska System, with about 16,500 students, about 14,000 of whom attend classes at Goose Lake, its main campus in Anchorage....

 from 1976 to 1978 then was Dean of the School of Business and Public Affairs. He was the Republican Party
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 candidate for governor of Alaska in 1998. He is the father of Susan Lindauer
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 and (John Howard Lindauer III), and lived in Alaska from 1976 until 2002. He currently resides in Chicago
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.

Biography

He was born on November 20, 1937 to Louise (1905–c.2004) and John Howard Lindauer I (1905–1954) in Montclair, New Jersey
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-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 38,977 people, 15,020 households, and 9,687 families residing in the township. The population density was 6,183.6 people per square mile . There were 15,531 housing units at an average density of 2,464.0 per square mile...

. He attended North Phoenix High School
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 from 1951 to 1954 and Arizona State University
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 from where he received a Bachelor of Science
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 in Business Administration. He later attended Oklahoma State University where he received a Ph.D.
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 in Economics
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. He served in the United States Army
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 for three years and spent five years in the Army Reserve
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. He was Assistant Professor of Economics at Occidental College 1964-1966 and then Associate Professor and Professor at CMC and the Claremont Graduate School 1966-1974. Then He then moved to Alaska and served as Chancellor for the University of Alaska Anchorage
University of Alaska Anchorage
The University of Alaska Anchorage is the largest school of the University of Alaska System, with about 16,500 students, about 14,000 of whom attend classes at Goose Lake, its main campus in Anchorage....

 from 1976 to 1978 then was dean
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 of the School of Business and Public Affairs. He served as a Pipeline Commissioner, 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. He was president of Denali Broadcasting and the Alaska Radio Network which owns five radio stations. He was the Fulbright Professor of Economics in India.

In 1982 he won a seat for District 10 in the Alaska House of Representatives
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. He was a member of the House Finance Committee.

In 1990, he was the Alaskan Independence Party
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's gubernatorial nominee and he abruptly withdrew from the campaign after the illness of his first wife, Jackie (1932–1992). 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
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write-in candidate split the vote when he received 20%. He spent more than $1.7 million in personal funds on the campaign.

Publications

  • Macroeconomics (1968, 1972, 1976) ISBN 0471535729
  • Macroeconomic Readings (1969) ASIN B000HCSLC0
  • Land Taxation and Indian Economic Development (with Sarjit Singh) 1974
  • 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
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