John Craig Chenoweth (May 4, 1943 – August 10, 1991) was a Minnesota politician, executive director of the Minneapolis Municipal Employees Retirement Fund, and a victim of an anti-gay hate crime.
[1] He also attended John Carroll University and William Mitchell College of Law, but did not graduate.
Before he was first elected, he was a Saint Paul Municipal Court law clerk and congressional campaign director.
[1] In November 1979, he resigned his term to become the executive director of the Minneapolis Municipal Employees Retirement Fund.
[1] Chenoweth was murdered by gunshot on the beach (a gay hangout area at the time) in Minneapolis, on August 10, 1991.