Indiana Attorney General

The Indiana Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the State of Indiana in the United States. Attorneys General are chosen by a statewide general election to serve for a four-year term. The forty-second and current Attorney General is Greg Zoeller.

The annual salary of the Attorney General of Indiana is $79,400.

List of Indiana Attorneys General

Territorial

Attorney General	Political Party	Term of Service
Benjamin Parke		1804–1808
John Rice Jones		1808–1816

State

Under the 1816 Constitution of Indiana the office of Attorney General was filled by appointment. After the adoption of the 1851 constitution, the office was filled by popular election.

Attorney General	Political Party	Term of Service
James Morrison	Republican Party	1855 - 1856
Joseph E. McDonald	Democratic Party	1856 - 1860
James G. Jones	Republican Party	1861 - 1860
John Palmer Usher	Republican Party	1861 - 1862
John F. Kibbey	Republican Party	1862
Oscar B. Hord	Democratic Party	1862 - 1864
Delano E. Williamson	Republican Party	1864 - 1870
Bayless W. Hanna	Democratic Party	1870 - 1872
James C. Denny	Republican Party	1872 - 1874
Clarence A. Buskirk	Democratic Party	1874 - 1878
Thomas W. Woollen	Democratic Party	1878 - 1880
Daniel P. Baldwin	Republican Party	1880 - 1882
Francis T. Hord	Democratic Party	1882 - 1886
Louis T. Michener	Republican Party	1886 - 1890
Alonzo G. Smith	Democratic Party	1890 - 1894
William A. Ketcham	Republican Party	1894 - 1898
William L. Taylor	Republican Party	1898 - 1903
Charles W. Miller	Republican Party	1903 - 1907
James Bingham	Republican Party	1907 - 1911
Thomas M. Honan	Democratic Party	1911 - 1915
Richard M. Milburn	Democratic Party	1915
Evan B. Stotsenburg	Democratic Party	1915 - 1917
Ele Stansbury	Republican Party	1917 - 1921
U. S. Lesh	Republican Party	1921 - 1925
Arthur L. Gilliom	Republican Party	1925 - 1929
James M. Ogden	Republican Party	1929 - 1933
Philip Lutz, Jr.	Democratic Party	1933 - 1937
Omer Stokes Jackson	Democratic Party	1937 - 1940
Samuel D. Jackson	Democratic Party	1940 - 1941
George N. Beamer	Democratic Party	1941 - 1943
James A. Emmert	Republican Party	1943 - 1947
Cleon H. Foust	Republican Party	1947 - 1949
J. Emmett McManamon	Democratic Party	1949 - 1953
Edwin K. Steers	Republican Party	1953 - 1965
John J. Dillon	Democratic Party	1965 - 1969
Theodore L. Sendak	Republican Party	1969 - 1981
Linley E. Pearson	Republican Party	1981 - 1993
Pamela L. Carter	Democratic Party	1993 - 1997
Jeffrey A. Modisett	Democratic Party	1997 - 2000
Karen Freeman-Wilson	Democratic Party	2000 - 2001
Stephen R. Carter	Republican Party	2001 - 2009
Gregory F. Zoeller	Republican Party	2009 - present

External links

• Official site of the Office of the Indiana Attorney General