page_title: List of Temple University people
section_title: Government
hierarchical_section_title: List of Temple University people / Alumni / Government
caption_attribution_description: John F. Street after a mayoral debate in the Irvine Auditorium
context_page_description: This is a list of notable faculty and alumni of Temple University, a comprehensive public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
context_section_description: Mari Carmen Aponte – U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
  Edward J. Bonin – Republican  U.S. Congressman for Pennsylvania
  Frederick C. Branch – first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer
  Horace J. Bryant – first African American to serve in a State Cabinet position in New Jersey
  Jamira Burley - Municipal leader, national campaign deputy director
  Michael E. Busch – Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates
  Jim Cawley – Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania
  Robert Coughlin – longstanding Republican Pennsylvania representative to United States House of Representatives
  Harold L. Ervin - judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania
  Edwin Duing Eshleman – former Republican congressman
  Thomas M. Foglietta – U.S. Congressman and United States Ambassador to Italy
  Vincent Fumo – Democratic Pennsylvania state senator
  Tom Gannon - Pennsylvania State Representative for the 161st legislative district (1979–2006)
  Nikoloz Gilauri – Prime Minister of Georgia
  Joseph M. Gladeck, Jr. (B.S. 1972) – Pennsylvania State Representative 1979–2000.
  Camillo Gonsalves (BA in Journalism) – Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
  Theo-Ben Gurirab – President of the United Nations General Assembly, 1999–2000; Speaker of the National Assembly of Namibia since 2005
  Joe Hoeffel – former Democratic congressman
  Malcolm Hoenlein – executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; founding executive director of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
  Vincent Hughes – Pennsylvania state senator (Democrat)
  Zambry Abdul Kadir – current Menteri Besar of Perak, Malaysia, from political party UMNO
  Kathleen Kane – first woman Attorney General of Pennsylvania, also convicted of felony perjury
  Paul E. Kanjorski – U.S. Congressman, representing  Pennsylvania's 11th district
  Guy Kratzer - Pennsylvania State Senator (1983-1986)
  Jerome Kurtz – Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1977–1980)
  David See-Chai Lam OC, CVO, OBC, (林思齊) – 25th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia, Canada
  Joseph Lazarow – Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1976–1982
  Bryan Lentz – private attorney; former Pennsylvania State Representative for the 161st legislative district (2007–2010); Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district
  Joseph Melrose – former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone, currently a professor at Ursinus College
  Bernard T. Mittemeyer – lieutenant general and  former Surgeon General of the United States Army.
  Francis J. Myers – former U.S. Senator and congressman, Pennsylvania
  Pallam Raju – Former Cabinet Minister of India for Human Resources Development
  Charles W. Sandman, Jr. – represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district, 1967–1975; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1973
  Jim Saxton – U.S. Congressman representing New Jersey's 3rd congressional district
  Jacob Seidenberg - chairman of the Federal Services Impasses Panel
  Martin J. Silverstein – United States Ambassador to Uruguay
  John F. Street – former Mayor of Philadelphia
  Nao Takasugi – California State Assembly
  R. K. Raghavan IPS – former Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation, India
caption: John F. Street, Mayor of Philadelphia (law)
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