United States Attorney General

The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government.

The members of the Department of Justice represent the United States in legal matters generally and offer advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested. The Attorney General appears in person to represent the Government before the Supreme Court of the United States in cases of exceptional importance. Under most circumstances the United States Solicitor General argues before the Supreme Court on the government's behalf.

The Attorney General is a member of the President's Cabinet.

United States Attorneys General
Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
Edmund Randolph[?]	1789-1794	George Washington
William Bradford	1794-1795	George Washington
Charles Lee	1795-1801	George Washington, John Adams
Levi Lincoln[?]	1801-1805	Thomas Jefferson
John Breckenridge[?]	1805-1806	Thomas Jefferson
Caesar A. Rodney[?]	1807-1811	Thomas Jefferson, James Madison
William Pinkney[?]	1811-1814	James Madison
Richard Rush[?]	1814-1817	James Madison
William Wirt[?]	1817-1829	James Monroe, John Quincy Adams
John M. Berrien[?]	1829-1831	Andrew Jackson
Roger B. Taney	1831-1833	Andrew Jackson
Benjamin F. Butler[?]	1833-1838	Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
Felix Grundy[?]	1838-1839	Martin Van Buren
Henry D. Gilpin[?]	1840-1841	Martin Van Buren
John J. Crittenden[?]	1841-1841	William Henry Harrison, John Tyler
Hugh S. Legare[?]	1841-1843	John Tyler
John Nelson[?]	1843-1845	John Tyler
John Y. Mason[?]	1845-1846	James Knox Polk
Nathan Clifford[?]	1846-1848	James Knox Polk
Issac Toucey[?]	1848-1849	James Knox Polk
Reverdy Johnson[?]	1849-1850	James Knox Polk
John J. Crittenden[?]	1850-1853	Millard Fillmore
Caleb Cushing[?]	1853-1857	Franklin Pierce
Jeremiah S. Black[?]	1857-1860	James Buchanan
Edwin M. Stanton[?]	1860-1861	James Buchanan
Edward Bates[?]	1861-1864	Abraham Lincoln
James Speed[?]	1864-1866	Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
Henry Stanberry[?]	1866-1868	Andrew Johnson
William M. Evarts[?]	1868-1869	Andrew Johnson
Ebenezer R. Hoar[?]	1869-1870	Ulysses S. Grant
Amos T. Akerman	1870-1872	Ulysses S. Grant
George H. Williams[?]	1871-1875	Ulysses S. Grant
Edwards Pierrepont[?]	1875-1876	Ulysses S. Grant
Alphonso Taft[?]	1876-1877	Ulysses S. Grant
Charles Devens[?]	1877-1881	Rutherford B. Hayes
Wayne MacVeagh[?]	1881-1881	James Garfield
Benjamin H. Brewster[?]	1881-1885	Chester A. Arthur
Augustus H. Garland[?]	1885-1889	Grover Cleveland
William H.H. Miller[?]	1889-1893	Benjamin Harrison
Richard Olney[?]	1893-1895	Grover Cleveland
Judson Harmon[?]	1895-1897	Grover Cleveland
Joseph McKenna[?]	1897-1898	William McKinley
John W. Griggs[?]	1898-1901	William McKinley
Philander C. Knox[?]	1901-1904	William McKinley
William H. Moody[?]	1904-1906	Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Joseph Bonaparte	1906-1909	Theodore Roosevelt
George W. Wickersham[?]	1909-1913	William Howard Taft
James C. McReynolds[?]	1913-1914	Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Watt Gregory[?]	1914-1919	Woodrow Wilson
A. Mitchell Palmer[?]	1919-1921	Woodrow Wilson
Harry M. Daugherty[?]	1921-1924	Warren G. Harding
Harlan Fiske Stone[?]	1924-1925	Calvin Coolidge
John T. Sargent[?]	1925-1929	Calvin Coolidge
William D. Mitchell[?]	1929-1933	Herbert Hoover
Homer S. Cummings[?]	1933-1939	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frank Murphy[?]	1939-1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert H. Jackson	1940-1941	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Francis Biddle[?]	1941-1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tom C. Clark	1945-1949	Harry S Truman
J. Howard McGrath[?]	1949-1952	Harry S Truman
James P. McGranery[?]	1952-1953	Harry S Truman
Herbert Brownell, Jr.[?]	1953-1957	Dwight D. Eisenhower
William P. Rogers[?]	1957-1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert F. Kennedy	1961-1964	John F. Kennedy
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach[?]	1965-1966	Lyndon Johnson
Ramsey Clark	1967-1969	Lyndon Johnson
John N. Mitchell	1969-1972	Richard Nixon
Richard G. Kleindienst[?]	1972-1973	Richard Nixon
Elliot L. Richardson[?]	1973-1973	Richard Nixon
William B. Saxbe[?]	1974-1975	Richard Nixon
Edward H. Levi[?]	1975-1977	Gerald Ford
Griffin B. Bell[?]	1977-1979	Jimmy Carter
Benjamin R. Civiletti[?]	1979-1981	Jimmy Carter
William French Smith[?]	1981-1985	Ronald Reagan
Edwin Meese III	1985-1988	Ronald Reagan
Richard Thornburgh[?]	1988-1991	Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush
William Barr[?]	1991-1993	George H. W. Bush
Janet Reno	1993-2001	Bill Clinton
John Ashcroft	2001-present	George W. Bush

External Links

Biographies of the Attorneys General (http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/ls/agbiographies.htm)

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