John Lindsay (born the November 24th 1921, and dead the December 19th 2000) was a Politician states-unien which was member of the American Congrès of 1959 with 1965, then mayor of New York of 1966 with 1973.

It was lawyer, and passed the essence of its political career within the Republican party of which it represented the liberal wing.

Born in New York, deputy of the Upper East Side of 1959 with 1965, Lindsay was an enthusiastic defender with the Congress of the legislation on the Civic right .

In 1965, candidate with the town hall of New York, it overrides the democrat Abe Beame and on the conservative candidate William F. Buckley, Jr.

In 1968, Lindsay actively supported the candidature of Spiro Agnew for the station of candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States.

In 1971, in cold with the administration of Richard Nixon, Lindsay rejoined the Democratic party and tried without success to seek the democratic nomination for the presidential election of 1972.

With a rate of unpopularity record, shown to be Co-person in charge of the financial crisis of the town of New York from which he is the mayor by following a policy considered as too expensive in favor of the poor and the ethnic minorities, Lindsay gives up requesting a new mandate in 1973.

It takes again its lawyer trade and still tries in 1980 without success to obtain the democratic nomination for the countryside of the Senate.

In 1990, patient, it must leave his law firm and finds without social protection nor complementary insurance health. It is then recruited in 1994 by the mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, as legal adviser of the city.

Victim of the Parkinson's disease, it dies of the continuations of a Pneumonie in Hilton Head, South Carolina, at the 79 years age.

His/her daughter, Anne Lindsay, are a militant democrat who took part in the electoral campaigns of Howard Dean and John Kerry in 2004.