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Rhode Island Former Attorneys General

Home / Attorneys General / Past Attorneys General / Rhode Island Former Attorneys General

Former attorneys general are listed in reverse chronological order.

Former Attorney GeneralTerm of Service
Peter Kilmartin2011 – 2019
Patrick Lynch2003 – 2011
Sheldon Whitehouse1999 – 2003
Jeffrey B. Pine1993 – 1999
James E. O’Neill1987 – 1993
Arlene N. Violet1985 – 1987
Dennis J. Roberts, II1979 – 1985
Julius C. Michaelson1975 – 1979
Richard J. Israel1971 – 1975
Herbert F. DeSimone1967 – 1971
J. Joseph Nugent1958 – 1967
William E. Powers1949 – 1958
John H. Nolan1941 – 1949
Louis V. Jackvony1939 – 1941
John P. Hartigan1933 – 1939
Benjamin M. McLyman1930 – 1933
Oscar L. Heltzen1929 – 1930
Charles P. Sisson1925 – 1929
Herbert L. Carpenter1923 – 1925
Herbert A. Rice1912 – 1923
William B. Greenough1905 – 1912
Charles F. Stearns1901 – 1905
William B. Tanner1897 – 1901
Edward C. Dubois1894 – 1897
Robert W. Burbank1891 – 1894
Ziba O. Slocum1889 – 1891
Horatio Rogers1888 – 1889
Ziba O. Slocum1887 – 1888
Edwin Metcalf1886 – 1887
Samuel P. Colt1882 – 1886
Willard Sayles1867 – 1882
Horatio Rogers1864 – 1867
Abraham Payne1863 – 1864
Walter S. Burges1860 – 1863
Jerome Kimball1858 – 1860
Charles Hart1855 – 1860
Christopher Robinson1854 – 1855
Walter S. Burges1851 – 1854
Joseph M. Blake1843 – 1851
Albert C. Greene1825 – 1843
Dutee J. Pearce1819 – 1825
Henry Bowen1817 – 1819
Samuel W. Bridgham1814 – 1817
James Burrill, Jr.1797 – 1814
Ray Greene1794 – 1797
William Channing1791 – 1797
Daniel Updike1790 – 1791
David Howell1789 – 1790
Henry Goodwin1787 – 1789
William Channing1777 – 1787
Henry Marchant1771 – 1777
Oliver Arnold1766 – 1771
Augustus Johnston1758 – 1766
Daniel Updike1746 – 1747
James Honeyman, Jr.1732 – 1740
Daniel Updike1722 – 1732
Henry Bull1721 – 1722
Weston Clarke1714 – 1721
John Hammett1713 – 1714
Richard Ward1712 – 1713
Simon Smith1706 – 1712
Joseph Sheffield1704 – 1706
Nathaniel Dyre1702 – 1704
John Pococke1701 – 1702
John Rhodes1700 – 1701
John Pococke1698 – 1700
John Smith1696 – 1698
John Pococke1690 – 1696
John Williams1686 – 1689
Weston Clarke1685 – 1686
John Pococke1684 – 1685
Edmund Calverly1681 – 1682
Weston Clarke1680 – 1681
Edward Richmond1677 – 1680
Weston Clarke1676 – 1677
Peter Easton1674 – 1676
John Easton1672 – 1674
Joseph Torrey1671 – 1672
John Sanford1670 – 1671
John Easton1664 – 1670
John Sanford1663 – 1664
John Easton1660 – 1663
John Greene, Jr.1657 – 1660
John Easton1656 – 1657
John Cranston1654 – 1656
John Easton1653 – 1654
William Dyer1650 – 1651

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