A chronological list of past Louisiana attorneys general is below.
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| James D. “Buddy” Caldwell | 2008 – 2016 |
| Charles C. Foti, Jr | 2004 – 2008 |
| Richard P. Leyoub | 1992 – 2004 |
| William J. Guste,Jr. | 1972 – 1992 |
| Jack P.R. Gremillion | 1956 – 1972 |
| Fred S. LeBlanc | 1952 – 1956 |
| Bolivar Edwards Kemp, Jr. | 1948 – 1952 |
| Fred S. LeBlanc | 1944 – 1948 |
| Eugene Stanley | 1940 – 1944 |
| Lessley P. Gardiner | 1939 – 1940 |
| David M. Ellison | 1939 |
| Gatson L. Porterie | 1932 – 1939 |
| Percy Saint | 1924 – 1932 |
| Adolphe V. Coco | 1916 – 1924 |
| Ruffin G. Pleasant | 1912 – 1916 |
| Walter Guion | 1900 – 1912 |
| Milton J. Cunningham | 1892 – 1900 |
| James Constantine Egan | 1880 – 1884 |
| Horatio N. Ogden | 1877 – 1879 |
| Hiram R. Steele | 1876 |
| William H. Hunt | 1876 |
| A.P. Field | 1872 – 1876 |
| Simeon Belden | 1868 – 1871 |
| B.S. Lynch | 1865 – 1867 |
| Andrew S. Herron | 1865 |
| F.S. Goode | 1862 – 1864 |
| Thomas J. Semmes | 1860 – 1862 |
| E. Warren Moise | 1855 – 1859 |
| Isaac E. Moise | 1853 – 1855 |
| Isaac Johnson | 1850 – 1852 |
| William A. Elmore | 1846 – 1848 |
| Isaac T. Preston | 1843 – 1845 |
| Christian Roselius | 1841 – 1842 |
| Etienne Mazareu | 1832 – 1840 |
| George Eustis | 1830 – 1832 |
| Alonzo Morphy | 1829 |
| Isaac T. Preston | 1823 – 1829 |
| Etienne Mazareu | 1820 – 1823 |
| Thomas Bolling Robertson | 1819 – 1820 |
| Louis Moreau Lislet | 1817 – 1818 |
| Etienne Mazareu | 1815-1817 |
| Francis Xavier Martin | 1812 – 1815 |
