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Minnesota Former Attorneys General

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A chronological list of past Minnesota attorneys general is below.

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Lori Swanson 2007 – 2019
Mike Hatch 1999 – 2007
Hubert H. Humphrey, III 1983 – 1999
Warren Spannaus 1971 – 1983
Douglas M. Head 1967 – 1971
Robert W. Mattson,Sr. 1964 – 1967
Walter F. Mondale 1960 – 1964
Miles W. Lord 1955 – 1960
Joseph A. A. Burnquist 1939 – 1955
William S. Ervin 1936 – 1939
Harry Herbert Peterson 1933 – 1936
Henry N. Benson 1929 – 1933
Gustof Aaron Youngquist 1928 – 1929
Albert Fuller Pratt 1927 – 1928
Clifford L. Hilton 1918 – 1927
Lyndon Ambrose Smith 1912 – 1918
George Thomas Simpson 1909 – 1912
Edward T. Young 1905 – 1909
William J. Donahower 1904 – 1905
Wallace B. Douglas 1899 – 1904
Henry W. Childs 1893 – 1899
Moses E. Clapp 1887 – 1893
William John Hahn 1881 – 1887
Charles M. Start 1880 – 1881
George P. Wilson 1874 – 1880
Francis R. E. Cornell 1868 – 1874
William J. Colvill 1866 – 1868
Gordon E. Cole 1860 – 1866
Charles H. Berry 1858 – 1860
LaFayette Emmett 1853 – 1858
Lorenzo A. Babcock 1849 – 1853

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