John Chandler Kubacki (June 6, 1912 – November 23, 1988) was an American politician who was Mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania, from 1960 to 1964.
[4][5] He served in the United States Navy during World War II as a physical training officer.
[2] In 1947, Kubacki helped organized and was elected chairman of the Veterans Political Advisory Board, which was created to recruit war veterans to run for political office and lobby for better housing, sports, and recreation facilities in Reading.
[12] In the general election, he defeated his former homeroom teacher, J. Edgar Hilgendorf, by 5,603 votes to become mayor of Reading.
[22] In 1968, Judge Alfred Leopold Luongo dismissed the $4,250 unpaid portion of his fine due to financial hardship.
[26] On November 16, 1966, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania voted 5 to 2 to grant all three defendants new trials after it found that the trial judge had erred by not allowing defense counsel to examine a tape recording of a statement made by prosecution witness Charles S. Wade and use portions of the statement in cross-examination.
[27] At the retrial, the alleged victim, Angeline Martin Wilkerson, refused to testify and the charges were dismissed against all three men.
[28] On January 27, 1965, Kubacki was found not guilty of extorting $500 from a dealer who sold the city two police vans.
[29] In 1968, Kubacki returned to politics as a candidate for his old House seat, but lost in the Democratic primary.