Massachusetts Attorney General

The Massachusetts Attorney General is an elected executive officer of the Massachusetts Government. The office of Attorney-General was abolished in 1843 and re-established in 1849. 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

No.	Attorney General		Term	Party
1	Benjamin Bullivant		July 26, 1686 – April 1687
2	Giles Masters		April 1687 – August 1687
3	James Graham		August 1687 – June 1689
4	Anthony Checkley		June 1689 – July 1702
5	Paul Dudley		July 1702 - November 1718
6	John Valentine		November 1718 - June 1720
7	Thomas Newton		June 1720 - May 1721
Vacant	Vacant		May 1721 - June 1722
8	John Overing		June 1722 - June 1723
9	Vacant		June 1723 - June 1725
10	John Read		June 1725 – June 1728
11	Joseph Hiller		June 1728 – June 1729
12	John Overing		June 1729 – June 1749
13	Edmund Trowbridge		June 1749 – March 1767
14	Jeremiah Gridley		March 1767 - September 1767
15	Vacant		September 1767 - November 1767
16	Jonathan Sewall		November 1767 - September 1774
17	Vacant		September 1774 - June 1777
18	Robert Treat Paine		June 19, 1778 – 1790
19	James Sullivan		1790 – 1807	Democratic-Republican
20	Barnabas Bidwell		June 15, 1807 – August 30, 1810	Democratic-Republican
21	Perez Morton		1810 – 1832	Democratic-Republican
22	James T. Austin		1832 – 1843	National Republican Party
Vacant			Office Abolished from 1843 to 1849.
23	John H. Clifford		1849 – 1853	Whig
24	Rufus Choate		1853 – May 12, 1854	Whig
25	John H. Clifford		1854 – 1858	Whig
26	Stephen Henry Phillips		1858 – 1861	Republican
27	Dwight Foster		1861 – 1864	Republican
28	Chester I. Reed		1864 – April 20, 1867	Republican
29	Charles Allen		1867 – 1872
30	Charles R. Train		1872 - 1879	Republican
31	George Marston		1879 - 1883
32	Edgar J. Sherman		1883 - October 1, 1887	Republican
33	Andrew J. Waterman		1887 - 1891	Republican
34	Albert E. Pillsbury		1891 - 1894	Republican
35	Hosea M. Knowlton		1894 - 1902	Republican
36	Herbert Parker		1902 - 1906	Republican
37	Dana Malone		1906 - 1911	Republican
38	James M. Swift		1911 - 1914	Republican
39	Thomas J. Boynton		1914 - 1915	Democratic
40	Henry Converse Atwill		1915 - 1919	Republican
Acting	Henry A. Wyman		1919 - 1920
41	J. Weston Allen		1920 - 1923	Republican
42	Jay R. Benton		1923 - 1927	Republican
43	Arthur K. Reading		1927 - June 6, 1928	Republican
44	Joseph E. Warner		1928 - 1935	Republican
45	Paul A. Dever		1935 – 1941	Democratic
46	Robert T. Bushnell		1941 - 1945	Republican
47	Clarence A. Barnes		1945 – 1949	Republican
48	Francis E. Kelly		1949 – 1953	Democratic
49	George Fingold		1953 - August 31, 1958	Republican
50	Edward J. McCormack, Jr.		September 11, 1958 - January 1963	Democratic
51	Edward Brooke		January 1963 – 1966	Republican
52	Edward T. Martin		January 1967	Republican
53	Elliot Richardson		January 1967 – January 1969	Republican
54	Robert H. Quinn		January 1969 – January 1975	Democratic
55	Francis X. Bellotti		January 1975 – January 1987	Democratic
56	James Shannon		January 1987 – January 1991	Democratic
57	L. Scott Harshbarger		January 1991 – January 1999	Democratic
58	Thomas Reilly		January 1999 – January 2007	Democratic
59	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