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Massachusetts Former Attorneys General

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A chronological list of past Massachusetts attorneys general is below.

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Martha Coakley 2007 – 2015
Thomas Reilly 1999 – 2007
L. Scott Harshbarger 1991 – 1999
James M. Shannon 1987 – 1991
Francis X. Bellotti 1975 – 1987
Robert H. Quinn 1969 – 1975
Elliot L. Richardson 1967 – 1969
Edward T. Martin 1967
Edward W. Brooke 1963 – 1967
Edward J. McCormack, Jr. 1958 – 1963
George Fingold 1953 – 1958
Francis E. Kelly 1949 – 1953
Clarence A. Barnes 1945 – 1949
Robert T. Bushnell 1941 – 1945
Paul E. Dever 1935 – 1941
Joseph E. Warner 1928 – 1935
Arthur K. Reading 1927 – 1928
Jay R. Benton 1923 – 1927
J. Weston Allen 1920 – 1923
Henry C. Wyman 1919 – 1920
Henry C. Attwill 1915 – 1919
Thomas J. Boynton 1914 – 1915
James M. Swift 1911 – 1914
Dana Malone 1906 – 1911
Herbert Parker 1902 – 1906
Hosea M. Knowlton 1894 – 1902
Albert E. Pillsbury 1891 – 1894
Andrew J. Waterman 1887 – 1891
Edgar J. Sherman 1883 – 1887
George Marston 1879 – 1883
Charles R. Train 1872 – 1879
Charles Allen 1867 – 1872
Chester I. Reed 1864 – 1867
Dwight Foster 1861 – 1864
Stephen Henry Phillips 1858 – 1861
John H. Clifford 1854 – 1858
Rufus Choate 1853 – 1854
John H. Clifford 1849 – 1853
Office Abolished 1843 – 1849
James T. Austin 1832 – 1843
Perez Morton 1810 – 1832
Barnabas Bidwell 1807 – 1810
James Sullivan 1790 – 1807
Robert Treat Paine 1778 – 1790
Benjamin Kent 1776 – 1778
Vacant 1774 – 1776
Jonathan Sewall 1767 – 1774
Jeremiah Gridley 1767
Edmund Trowbridge 1738 – 1767
William Brattle 1736 – 1738
John Overing 1729 – 1736
Joseph Hiller 1728 – 1729
John Read 1725 – 1728
Vacant 1723 – 1725
John Overing 1722 – 1723
Vacant 1721 – 1722
Thomas Newton 1720 – 1721
John Valentine 1718 – 1720
Paul Dudley 1702 – 1718

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