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Edgar Graham, a law lecturer (who recieved widespread praise) at Queen's university who became a member of the brief NI Assembly in 1982, was seen as a rising star within the creaking Ulster Unionist Party at the time of his death on the 7th of December, 1983. He was with his friend Dermot Nesbitt, who would remain in politics to this day, when two masked gunmen shot him point blank in the head. His death came after the death of Robert Bradford, an MP for South Belfast, two years earlier. Let's say either Graham and Nesbitt take a taxi or the gunmen are worse shots - allowing for Graham to be revived.
Graham had fairly obvious political amibtions - he had stood for the UUP's selection contest in Strangford only months earlier - and he was only in his early 30's at the time of his death. His views were quite moderate (?), so perhaps he could end up at the forefront of the Peace Process sixteen years later.