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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>  

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. Mary was considered to be essential to the workings of her husband's administration. 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 1983, John Lindsay, Jr., was given a six-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to attempting to sell [cocaine]] to an undercover police officer.

In 1967, Lindsay was appointed by President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] to serve on the Kerner Commission, which investigated the widespread racial unrest and looting in the middle 1960s. The commission report blamed "white racism" as the cause of the civil unrest. Throughout his career, Lindsay was a staunch advocate of [[civil rights]] legislation. The Lindsay administration faced a devastating blizzard in 1969 and strikes by sanitation workers, teachers, and transit personnel. Still, he won reelection by plurality in 1969 despite having lost the Republican nomination to Marchi. Though allied with many [[Moderate Republicans]] and liberal Republicans, such as [[Governor]] [[Nelson Rockefeller]] and [[U.S. Senator]] Jacob Javits, Lindsay surprised observers when he switched to the Democratic Party with more than two years left in his second term as mayor.  

In 1967, Lindsay was appointed by President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] to serve on the Kerner Commission, which investigated the widespread racial unrest and looting in the middle 1960s. The commission report blamed "white racism" as the cause of the civil unrest. Throughout his career, Lindsay was a staunch advocate of [[civil rights]] legislation. The Lindsay administration faced a devastating blizzard in 1969 and strikes by sanitation workers, teachers, and transit personnel. Still, he won reelection by plurality in 1969 despite having lost the Republican nomination to Marchi. Though allied with many [[Moderate Republicans]] and liberal Republicans, such as [[Governor]] [[Nelson Rockefeller]] and [[U.S. Senator]] Jacob Javits, Lindsay surprised observers when he switched to the Democratic Party with more than two years left in his second term as mayor.