Mississippi Attorney General

The Attorney-General of Mississippi is the chief legal officer of the state and serves as the State's lawyer. Only the Attorney-General can bring or defend a lawsuit on behalf of the State.

Attorneys-General are elected statewide for 4-year terms with no term limits. The qualification for office is that one must be qualified elector, at least 26 years of ages, a practicing attorney for 5 years, and a citizen of the state for 5 years before the date of election.

List of Attorneys-General

Name	Term	Party
Lyman Harding	1818-1820
Edward Turner	1820-1821
Thomas B. Reed	1821-1825
Richard Stockton	1825-1828
George Adams	1828-1829
Robert H. Buckner	1829-1830
R.M. Gaines	1830-1834
M.D. Patton	1834-1837
T.F. Collins	1837-1841	Democrat
John D. Freeman	1841-1850	Democrat
David (D.C.) Glenn	1850-1857	Democrat
T.J. Wharton	1857-1865	Democrat
Charles E. Hooker	1865-1868	Democrat
Jasper Myers	1868-1870
Joshua S. Morris	1870-1874
George E. Harris	1874-1878	Republican
Thomas C. Catchings	1878-1885	Democrat
Thomas S. Ford	1885-1886	Democrat
T. Marshall Miller	1886-1893	Democrat
Frank Johnston	1893-1896	Democrat
Wiley N. Nash	1896-1900	Democrat
Monroe McClurg	1900-1903	Democrat
William Williams	1903-1907	Democrat
Robert Virgil Fletcher	1907-1908	Democrat
J. Bowman Sterling	1908-1910	Democrat
Shepherd Spencer Hudson	1910-1912	Democrat
Rosser Alexander Collins	1912-1920	Democrat
Frank Roberson	1920-1923	Democrat
C.D. Potter	1923-1924	Democrat
Rush Hightower Knox	1924-1928	Democrat
George T. Mitchell	1928-1932	Democrat
Greek L. Rice	1932-1952	Democrat
James P. Coleman	1952-1956	Democrat
Joseph Turner Patterson	1956-1969	Democrat
Albioun Fernando Summer	1969-1980	Democrat
William Allain	1980-1984	Democrat
Edwin Lloyd (Ed) Pittman	1984-1988	Democrat
Mike Moore	1988-2004	Democrat
Jim Hood	2004-present	Democrat