He wore his differences with pride, sometimes calling himself the "working-class deputy mayor".
For a moment, the other life that Martin McGuinness could have had seemed to appear in his face: a commander of the Irish Republican Army that day in 1972, he looked last week like the fly fisherman he is, not the gunman he became... a school teacher, not a terrorist... a first-class deputy first minister.
"I've seen most of the aviation museums in this country, and the Cradle of Aviation is definitely a world-class museum," said Donald Lopez, deputy director of the National Air and Space Museum.
Australian leader, and working-class hero deputy leader: its going to be interesting for us.
"They put us in third class," says Juma Said Ali, Deputy Chairman of Southern Sudan's Religious Leaders, an organization in Juba.
Mr Prescott became an MP sponsored by the National Union of Seamen, rising to become Labour's leading class warrior, and deputy prime minister.
"Data science is critical for just about everything we do," said Patricia Falcone, Class of 1974, deputy director for science and technology at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
"The FN vote is a sanction of the political class," says Christelle Hiver, deputy mayor of Doullens, where unemployment at 20% is twice the national average and immigration close to zero.
The court was told the teacher, who worked at the school for 15 years, was warned about being too "tactile" with the girls in his class by the deputy head in 2008.
After teaching a yoga session for the high-ranking command staff of the LAPD, I was told by the psychologist I work with (from their Behavioral Science Services) that one of my class attendees, a Deputy Chief, was getting pretty heated during a meeting later that day.
"We're proud that our work to improve speed and reliability has been noticed, and we are committed to continuing to work to make our guest experience — including our Wi-Fi service — first class," said Trevor Daley, deputy director for external affairs at Los Angeles World Airports.
