Politics and Law
| Name | Life | Comments | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edwin Cameron | (born 1953) | South African Supreme Court of Appeal judge. | |
| Roy Cohn | (1927–1986) | American lawyer; came to prominence during the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into alleged Communism in the U.S. government, especially the Army–McCarthy hearings. | |
| Brian Coyle | (1944–1991) | Minneapolis City Council member, president of the City Council. | |
| Terry Dolan | (1950–1986) | American New Right political activist who founded and chaired the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). | |
| James K. Dressel | (1943–1992) | American state representative for the Republican Party in the Michigan legislature; gay rights activist. | |
| Thomas Duane | (born 1955) | American politician; first openly HIV-positive member of the New York City Council and the New York State Senate | |
| Nicholas Eden | (1930–1985) | British Conservative politician and son of Prime Minister Anthony Eden | |
| Paul Gann | (1912–1989) | American politician, co-author of California Proposition 13 (1978) | |
| Greg Harris | (born 1955) | American politician from Illinois. | |
| Richard A. Heyman | (1935–1994) | American politician; mayor of Key West, Florida in 1983-85 and 1987-89. | |
| Ryuhei Kawada | (born 1976) | Japanese member of parliament who sued the government for failing to prevent HIV transmission through tainted blood products. | |
| Michael Kühnen | (1955–1991) | German leader of the neo-Nazi scene. | |
| Makgatho Mandela | (1950–2005) | South African attorney; was the son of former South African president Nelson Mandela. | |
| Larry McKeon | (1944–2008) | American politician and member of the Illinois House of Representatives. | |
| Stewart McKinney | (1931–1987) | American Congressman; represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 until his death. | |
| Rand Schrader | (1945–1993) | Los Angeles Municipal Court judge | |
| Chris Smith | (born 1951) | British Labour Party politician; member of the House of Lords and former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. |
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“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)