Massachusetts Attorney General

The Massachusetts Attorney General is an executive officer of the Massachusetts Government. The current Attorney General is Martha Coakley.

The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer and lawyer for Massachusetts. There are five bureaus in the Attorney General's Office: Executive, Business and Labor Protection, Criminal, Government, and Public Protection.

List of Attorneys General

Attorney General		Term	Party
Benjamin Bullivant		July 26, 1686 – April 1687
Giles Masters		April 1687 – August 1687
James Graham		August 1687 – June 1689
Anthony Checkley		June 1689 – July 1702
Paul Dudley		July 1702 - November 1718
John Valentine		November 1718 - June 1720
Thomas Newton		June 1720 - May 1721
Vacant		May 1721 - June 1722
John Overing		June 1722 - June 1723
Vacant		June 1723 - June 1725
John Read		June 1725 – June 1728
Joseph Hiller		June 1728 – June 1729
John Overing		June 1729 – June 1749
Edmund Trowbridge		June 1749 – March 1767
Jeremiah Gridley		March 1767 - September 1767
Vacant		September 1767 - November 1767
Jonathan Sewall		November 1767 - September 1774
Vacant		September 1774 - June 1777
Robert Treat Paine		June 19, 1778 – 1790
James Sullivan		1790 – 1807	Democratic-Republican
Barnabas Bidwell		June 15, 1807 – August 30, 1810
Perez Morton		1810 – 1832
James T. Austin		1832 – 1843
Office Abolished		1843 - 1849
John H. Clifford		1849 – 1853	Whig
Rufus Choate		1853 – May 12, 1854	Whig
John Henry Clifford		1854 – 1858	Whig
Stephen Henry Phillips		1858 – 1861	Republican
Dwight Foster		1861 – 1864	Republican
Chester L. Reed		1864 – April 20, 1867
Charles Allen		1867 – 1872
Charles R. Train		1872 - 1879	Republican
George Marston		1879 - 1883
Edgar J. Sherman		1883 - October 1, 1887
Andrew J. Waterman		1887 - 1891
Albert E. Pillsbury		1891 - 1894
Hosea M. Knowlton		1894 - 1902
Herbert Parker		1902 - 1906
Dana Malone		1906 - 1911	Republican
James M. Swift		1911 - 1914	Republican
Thomas J. Boynton		1914 - 1915
Henry Converse Atwill		1915 - 1919	Republican
Henry A. Wyman		1919 - 1920
J. Weston Allen		1920 - 1923
Jay R. Benton		1923 - 1927	Republican
Arthur K. Reading		1927 - June 6, 1928
Joseph E. Warner		1928 - 1935	Republican
Paul A. Dever		1935 – 1941	Democratic
Robert T. Bushnell		1941 - 1945
Clarence A. Barnes		1945 – 1949	Republican
Francis E. Kelly		1949 – 1953	Democratic
George Fingold		1953 - August 31, 1958
Edward T. Martin		1958
Edward J. McCormack, Jr.		1958 - 1963	Democratic
Edward Brooke		January 1963 – January 1967	Republican
Elliot L. Richardson		January 1967 – January 1969	Republican
Robert H. Quinn		January 1969 – January 1975	Democratic
Francis X. Bellotti		January 1975 – January 1987	Democratic
James Shannon		January 1987 – January 1991	Democratic
Scott Harshbarger		January 1991 – January 1999	Democratic
Thomas Reilly		January 1999 – January 2007	Democratic
Martha Coakley		January 2007 – present	Democratic

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

References

• Source: http://www.ago.state.ma.us/sp.cfm?pageid=978
• Source: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/attygn.html

External links

• Official site

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