In a June 2002 column, Republican consultant and speechwriter Peggy Noonan expressed the hope that the Bush administration would change the name of the department, writing that, " The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably.

Declining to seek re-election in 2002, he was succeeded by fellow Republican Lindsey Graham.

On 30 November 2002, in an elaborate but solemn procession, six Republican Guards carried the coffin of Alexandre Dumas ( 1802 – 1870 ), the author of The Three Musketeers, to the Panthéon.

* Barbara Bilger ( Republican )-1990 to 1992 and 2002 to 2004 ( Mayor in 2002 & 2004, Deputy Mayor in 1992 & 2003 )

Maggi once ran for the Democratic nomination for Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district against Republican incumbent Tim Murphy in 2002.

Although the county is heavily Republican, and African-Americans make up less than 5 % of the county's population, in 2002 the county's voters elected Luther Parks as a county commissioner.

In 2002, however, Republican Elizabeth Dole defeated Bowles with 55 % of the vote here, and won by a large margin statewide.

Politics at the local level in Pulaski County were traditionally dominanted by the Democratic Party, but Republican Party candidates have become increasingly viable in the years since 2002, when the first large-scale victories of Republican candidates began.

During the 2002 election campaign, Davis took the unusual step of taking out campaign ads during the Republican primaries against Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan.

Davis ' negative ads against Riordan and a variety of other equally important factors explained on the 2002 election page, led to Riordan's defeat in the Republican primary by the more staunchly conservative candidate Bill Simon.

In 2002, Simon campaigned unsuccessfully for Governor of California as a Republican against Democratic incumbent Gray Davis.

Simon won the Republican nomination in the primary election of March 2002.

In 2002 McCall officially announced his campaign against Republican incumbent George Pataki.

In 2002 he won his second term in office by defeating Republican challenger attorney Doug Gross by eight points.

* Robert Max Ross ( 1933 – 2009 ) ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for Louisiana governor in 1971 and 1983, the United States Senate in 1984 and 1986, the Louisiana State Senate in 1972, and mayor of Mangham in 2002.

Federally, Port Huron is part of Michigan's 10th congressional district, represented by Republican Candice Miller, elected in 2002.

* Clinton LeSueur ( born 1969 ), Republican politician who lost races in 2002 and 2004 for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district to incumbent Democrat Bennie Thompson

* Douglas Forrester ( born 1953 ), former mayor of West Windsor Township who was the Republican Party nominee for U. S. Senator in 2002 and Governor of New Jersey in 2005.

Republican Wendell N. Butler, Jr. was appointed Mayor of the City of Chester on October 9, 2002, to fill the unexpired term of Dominic Pileggi, who resigned to take a seat in the State Senate.

* J. E. " Buster " Brown, Republican State Senator from Texas Senate, District 17 ( Lake Jackson ) from 1981 to 2002, was born in Mercedes in 1940.

In another example Cato president Ed Crane and Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope co-wrote a 2002 op-ed piece in the Washington Post calling for the abandonment of the Republican energy bill, arguing that it had become little more than a gravy train for Washington, D. C. lobbyists.

Since then, gubernatorial elections have been offset by two years from U. S. Presidential elections ( e. g., Presidential elections were in 2000 and 2004, gubernatorial elections were in 1998 and 2002 ).

The Independence Party originally ran its own candidate for governor until 2002, but since then has instead retained its automatic ballot status by running a gubernatorial candidate who was designated by one of the major parties.

The Liberal Party, which had been active since 1944, became defunct as a result of the 2002 gubernatorial election.

1969, unsuccessful candidate for governor of Texas, 2002 gubernatorial election

* Alaska gubernatorial election, 2002

The 2002 gubernatorial race was the most expensive in California state history with over $ 100 million spent.

Early in the recall election, Davis called the recall election an “ insult ” to the eight million voters who had voted in the 2002 gubernatorial election.

However, women were the runners-up in four gubernatorial elections ( in 1974, 1994, 1998, and 2002 ).

Howell also was a candidate in the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial election.

Previously, Kate Whitman served as press secretary for Craig Benson ’ s 2002 gubernatorial campaign in New Hampshire, and later, communications director for the New Hampshire Republican State Committee.

She narrowly won the Arizona gubernatorial election of 2002 with 46 percent of the vote, succeeding Republican Jane Dee Hull and defeating her Republican opponent, former congressman Matt Salmon, who received 45 percent of the vote.

* Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2002

* Ed Thompson, Mayor of Tomah 2000-2002 and 2008-2010, Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate 2002, State Senate Candidate 2010.

On 17 July 2008, Stephen Spoonamore made the claim that had " fresh evidence regarding election fraud on Diebold electronic voting machines during the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial and senatorial elections.

Murkowski was elected governor on November 5, 2002, receiving nearly 56 % of the vote, the highest percentage for any gubernatorial candidate in Alaska history up until that point.

* Alaska gubernatorial election, 2002

By law, the committee had to collect signatures from registered California voters amounting to 12 % of the number of Californians who voted in the previous gubernatorial election ( November 2002 ) for the special recall vote to take place.

In 2002, Camejo ran uncontested in the California Green Party gubernatorial primary.

Riley did not run for re-election to the House in November 2002 ( as a supporter of term limits, he imposed a three-term limit on himself ), instead running for Governor of Alabama and defeating the Democratic incumbent by approximately 3, 000 votes-the narrowest margin in the state's history for a gubernatorial race.

In the 2002 election, she defeated former Governor James Blanchard and House Democratic Whip David Bonior in the Democratic primary and then went on to win the gubernatorial election against the Republican nominee, Lieutenant Governor Dick Posthumus, to become governor.

* Van Hilleary — Former United States Representative and 2002 gubernatorial nominee.

After a very poor showing in the 2002 gubernatorial election when former Clinton administration Cabinet member Andrew Cuomo abandoned his campaign before the election, the party lost its automatic place on the ballot and ceased operations at its state offices.

On January 21, 2003, Judge Rendell administered the oath of office to her husband after he won the gubernatorial election in November, 2002.