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|name=John Vliet  John Lindsay​

|name=John Vliet  John Lindsay​

|office= 103rd [[Mayor]] of ]]New York City]]​

|office=103rd [[Mayor]] of ]]New York City]]​

|term_start=January 1, 1966​

|term_start=January 1, 1966​

|term_end=December 31, 1973​

|term_end=December 31, 1973​

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]-turned-Liberal Party (1969-1971)-turned-[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]  

|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]-turned-Liberal Party (1969-1971)-turned-[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]  

|alma_mater=[[Yale University]] <br>

|alma_mater=[[Yale University]] <br>

[[Yale Law School]]​

Yale Law School​

|spouse=Mary A. Harrison Lindsay (marrid 1949-2000, his death)

|spouse=Mary A. Harrison Lindsay (marrid 1949-2000, his death)

|children=Katherine Lake

|children=Katherine Lake

'''John Vliet Lindsay, Sr.''' (November 24, 1921 &ndash;  December 19, 2000) was an [[United States|American]] [[attorney]], [[politician]], and broacaster who served two-terms as the [[mayor]] of [[New York City]] from 1966 to 1974. Considered perhaps the most [[liberal]] of any Republican in the country, Lindsay represented [[New York]]'s 17th "Silk Stocking" congressional district from 1959 to 1965. Elected mayor in 1965, he defeated the more [[conservative]] [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] opponent, [[U.S. Representative]] Mario Procccacino and the ''[[National Review]]'' publisher [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], the nominee of the New York Conservative Party.,a  breakaway from the GOP.  When he lost the Republican nomination in 1969 to conservative state Senator John J. Marchi of [[Staten Island]], Lindsay temporarily switched to the banner of the New York Liberal Party to win the [[general election]]. By 1971, he had switched parties again to contest the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination to challenge the reelection of [[Richard M. Nixon]]. He was eliminated early in the contest, and the nomination went to the liberal [[U.S. Senator]] [[George McGovern]] of [[South Dakota]], who won only [[Massachusetts]] and the [[District of Columbia]].

'''John Vliet Lindsay, Sr.''' (November 24, 1921 &ndash;  December 19, 2000) was an [[United States|American]] [[attorney]], [[politician]], and broacaster who served two-terms as the [[mayor]] of [[New York City]] from 1966 to 1974. Considered perhaps the most [[liberal]] of any Republican in the country, Lindsay represented [[New York]]'s 17th "Silk Stocking" congressional district from 1959 to 1965. Elected mayor in 1965, he defeated the more [[conservative]] [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] opponent, [[U.S. Representative]] Mario Procccacino and the ''[[National Review]]'' publisher [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], the nominee of the New York Conservative Party.,a  breakaway from the GOP.  When he lost the Republican nomination in 1969 to conservative state Senator John J. Marchi of [[Staten Island]], Lindsay temporarily switched to the banner of the New York Liberal Party to win the [[general election]]. By 1971, he had switched parties again to contest the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination to challenge the reelection of [[Richard M. Nixon]]. He was eliminated early in the contest, and the nomination went to the liberal [[U.S. Senator]] [[George McGovern]] of [[South Dakota]], who won only [[Massachusetts]] and the [[District of Columbia]].

Born on West End Avenue in the [[Manhattan]] borough, Lindsay was a son of George Nelson Lindsay, an investment banker and lawyer, and the former Florence Eleanor Vliet, hence his middle name. Lindsay attended exclusive private schools: the Buckley School in New York City, St. Paul's School in [[Concord]], [[New Hampshire]], and then [[Yale University]] and [[Yale Law School]] in New Haven, [[Connecticut]], from which he received his law degree in 1948. He joined the New York firm of Webster & Sheffield, of which he was later made a partner.​​<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/21/nyregion/john-v-lindsay-mayor-and-maverick-dies-at-79.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=John V. Lindsay, Mayor and Maverick, Dies at 79|author=Robert D. McFadden|date= December 21, 2000|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|page=A1|accessdate=May 23, 2020}}</ref> ​

Born on West End Avenue in the [[Manhattan]] borough, Lindsay was a son of George Nelson Lindsay, an investment banker and lawyer, and the former Florence Eleanor Vliet, hence his middle name. Lindsay attended exclusive private schools: the Buckley School in New York City, St. Paul's School in [[Concord]], [[New Hampshire]], and then [[Yale University]] and Yale Law School in New Haven, [[Connecticut]], from which he received his law degree in 1948. He joined the New York firm of Webster & Sheffield, of which he was later made a partner.​​<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/21/nyregion/john-v-lindsay-mayor-and-maverick-dies-at-79.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=John V. Lindsay, Mayor and Maverick, Dies at 79|author=Robert D. McFadden|date= December 21, 2000|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|page=A1|accessdate=May 23, 2020}}</ref> ​

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In 1943, he joined the [[United States Navy]] in which he obtained the rank of lieutenant. He participated in the Pacific Theater of Operations and in the invasion of [[Sicily]]. He earned five battle stars.In 1949, when admitted to the bar, he married the former Mary Anne Harrison (1926-2004), whom he had met at the wedding of Nancy Walker Bush Ellis, a sister of later [[U.S. President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]]. He was a groomsman and she a bridesmaid. A distant relative of Presidents [[William Henry Harrison]] and [[Benjamin Harrison]], she graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The couple had three daughters and a son, John, Jr. Mary was considered essential in the workings of the Lindsay administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/10/nyregion/mary-lindsay-a-force-as-the-mayor-s-wife-dies-at-77.html|title=Mary Lindsay, a Force as the Mayor's Wife, Dies at 77|author=Douglas Martin|publisher=''The New York Times]''|date=March 10, 2004|accessdate=May 23, 2020}}</ref>

In 1943, he joined the [[United States Navy]] in which he obtained the rank of lieutenant. He participated in the Pacific Theater of Operations and in the invasion of [[Sicily]]. He earned five battle stars.In 1949, when admitted to the bar, he married the former Mary Anne Harrison (1926-2004), whom he had met at the wedding of Nancy Walker Bush Ellis, a sister of later [[U.S. President]] [[George Herbert Walker Bush]]. He was a groomsman and she a bridesmaid. A distant relative of Presidents [[William Henry Harrison]] and [[Benjamin Harrison]], she graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. The couple had three daughters and a son, John, Jr. Mary was considered essential in the workings of the Lindsay administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/10/nyregion/mary-lindsay-a-force-as-the-mayor-s-wife-dies-at-77.html|title=Mary Lindsay, a Force as the Mayor's Wife, Dies at 77|author=Douglas Martin|publisher=''The New York Times]''|date=March 10, 2004|accessdate=May 23, 2020}}</ref>