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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“Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.”
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