2002

Events

 * January 12:
 * Timothy Kaine becomes Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
 * November:
 * Bradley Byrne becomes a Member of the Alabama Senate
 * November 14:
 * Thomas Price becomes Majority Leader of the Georgia Senate
 * December:
 * Tulsi Gabbard becomes a Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives

Deaths

 * February 10:
 * Vernon Anthony Walters - Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1917)
 * April 15:
 * Byron Raymond White - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (b. 1917)
 * September 2:
 * Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. - Father of Joseph Biden Jr. (b. 1915)
 * December 2:
 * Elizabeth Bullock Andrews - Member of the House of Representatives (b. 1911)