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New York Former Attorneys General

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Former attorneys general are listed in reverse chronological order.

Former Attorney GeneralTerm of Service
Barbara Underwood (Acting)2018
Eric Schneiderman2011 – 2018
Andrew M. Cuomo2007 – 2010
Eliot Spitzer1999 – 2006
Dennis Vacco1995 – 1998
G. Oliver Koppell1994
Robert Abrams1979 – 1993
Louis J. Lefkowitz1957 – 1987
Jacob K. Javits1955 – 1957
Nathaniel L. Goldstein1943 – 1954
John J. Bennett, Jr.1931 – 1942
Hamilton Ward, Jr.1929 – 1930
Albert Ottinger1925 – 1928
Carl Sherman1923 – 1924
Charles D. Newton1919 – 1922
Merton E. Lewis1917 – 1918
Egburt E. Woodbury1915 – 1917
James A. Parsons1914
Thomas Carmody1911 – 1914
Edward Richard O’Malley1909 – 1910
William S. Jackson1907 – 1908
Julius M. Mayer1905 – 1906
John Cunneen1903 – 1904
John C. Davies1899 – 1902
Thoeodore E. Hancock1894 – 1898
Simon W. Rosendale1892 – 1893
Charles F. Tabor1888 – 1891
Denis O’Brien1884 – 1887
Leslie W. Russell1882 – 1883
Hamilton Ward, Si.1880 – 1881
Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr.1878 – 1879
Charles S. Fairchild1876 – 1877
Daniel Pratt1874 – 1875
Francis C. Barlow1872 – 1873
Marshall B. Champlain1868 – 1871
John H. Martindale1868 – 1871
John Cochrane1866 – 1867
Daniel S. Dickinson1862 – 1863
Charles G. Myers1860 – 1861
Lyman Tremain1858 – 1859
Stephen B. Cushing1856 – 1857
Ogden Hoffman1854 – 1855
Gardner Stow1853
Levi S. Chatfield1850 – 1853
Ambrose L. Jordan1848 – 1849
John Van Buren1845 – 1848
George P. Barker1842 – 1845
Willis Hall1839 – 1842
Samuel Beardsley1836 – 1839
Greene C. Bronson1829 – 1836
Samuel A. Talcott1821 – 1829
Thomas Jackson Oakley1819 – 1821
Martin Van Buren1815 – 1819
Abraham Van Vechten1813 – 1815
Thomas Addis Emmet1812 – 1813
Matthias B. Hildreth1808 – 1810
John Woodworth1804 – 1808
Ambrose Spencer1802 – 1804
Josiah Odgen Hoffman1795 – 1802
Nathaniel Lawrence1792 – 1795
Morgan Lewis1791 – 1792
Aaron Burr1789 – 1791
Richard Varick1788 – 1789
Egbert Benson1777 – 1788

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