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Coordinates: 38°59′50″N 105°32′52″W / 38.9972°N 105.5478°W / 38.9972; -105.5478 (State of Colorado)
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Attorney General of Colorado
Incumbent
Phil Weiser
since January 8, 2019
Colorado Department of Law
Constituting instrumentColorado Constitution
Websitewww.coag.gov

The Attorney General of the State of Colorado is the chief legal officer for the U.S. State of Colorado and the head of the Colorado Department of Law, a principal department of the Colorado state government. It is an elected position with a four-year term, and follows the same schedule as election of the governor. The incumbent Colorado Attorney General is Democrat Phil Weiser, who was elected in November 2018 to a four-year term that began on January 8, 2019.

The Department of Law has seven sections: Appellate, Natural Resources and Environmental, Consumer Protection, State Services, Civil Litigation and Employment Law, Criminal Justice, Revenue & Utilities, and Business & Licensing.[1]

Attorneys general of the Territory of Colorado

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# Attorney General Party Term of Service
1 James E. Dalliba Republican 1861–1862
2 Samuel E. Brown Republican 1862–1865
3 George W. Chamberlain Republican 1865–1869
4 Henry C. Thatcher Republican 1869–1873

From 1873 to 1877 the Attorney General position was filled by the U.S. Attorney due to lack of funding by the territorial government. In 1876 Colorado was admitted to the Union as a State.

Attorneys general of the State of Colorado

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# Image Attorney General Party Term of Service
1 A. J. Sampson Republican 1877–1878
2 Charles W. Wright Republican 1879–1880
3 Charles H. Toll Republican 1881–1882
4 David F. Urmy Republican 1883–1884
5 Theodore H. Thomas Republican 1885–1886
6 Alvin Marsh Republican 1887–1888
7 Samuel W. Jones Republican 1889–1890
8 Joseph H. Maupin Democratic 1891–1892
9 Eugene Engley People's Party 1893–1894
10 Byron L. Carr Republican 1895–1898
11 David M. Campbell Republican 1899–1900
12 Charles C. Post Republican 1901–1902
13 Nathan C. Miller Republican 1903–1906
14 William H. Dickson Republican 1907–1908
15 John T. Barnett Democratic 1909–1910
16 Benjamin Griffith Republican 1911–1912
17 Fred Farrar Democratic 1913–1916
18 Leslie E. Hubbard Democratic 1917–1918
19 Victor E. Keyes Republican 1919–1922
20 Russel W. Fleming Democratic 1923–1924
21 Wayne C. Williams Democratic 1924–1925
22 William Boatright Republican 1925–1928
23 Robert E. Winbourn Republican 1929–1930
24 John S. Underwood Republican 1930–1931
25 Clarence L. Ireland Republican 1931–1932
26 Paul P. Prosser Democratic 1933–1936
27 Byron G. Rogers Democratic 1936–1940
28 Gail L. Ireland Republican 1941–1945
29 H. Lawrence Hinkley Republican 1945–1949
30 John W. Metzger Democratic 1949–1950
31 Duke W. Dunbar Republican 1951–1972
32 John P. Moore Republican 1972–1974
33 J.D. MacFarlane Democratic 1975–1982
34 Duane Woodard Republican 1983–1987
Democratic 1987-1991
35 Gale Norton Republican 1991–1999
36 Ken Salazar Democratic 1999–2005
37 John Suthers Republican 2005–2015
38 Cynthia Coffman Republican 2015–2019
39 Phil Weiser Democratic 2019-present

References

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  1. ^ Office Duties and Responsibilities, Colorado Attorney General's Office
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