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Pennsylvania Former Attorneys General

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Former attorneys general are listed in reverse chronological order.

Former Attorney GeneralTerm of Service
Michelle A. Henry2023 - 2025
Josh Shapiro2017 - 2023
Bruce Beemer2016 - 2017
Bruce Castor2016
Kathleen Kane2013 – 2016
Linda Kelly2011 - 2013
William Ryan2011
Tom Corbett2005 - 2011
Jerry Pappert2004 - 2005
Mike Fisher1997 - 2004
Walter W. Cohen1995
Ernie Preate1989 - 1995
Leroy S. Zimmerman1981 - 1989
Harvey Bartle, III1980 - 1981
Edward G. Biester, Jr.1979 - 1980
J. Justin Blewitt, Jr.1979
Gerald Gornish1978
Robin P. Kane1975 - 1978
Israel Packel1973 - 1974
J. Shane Creamer1970 - 1972
Fred Speaker1970 - 1971
William C. Sennett1967 - 1970
Edward Friedman1966 - 1967
Walter E. Alessandroni1963 - 1966
David Stahl1961 - 1963
Anne X. Alpern1959 - 1961
Thomas D. McBride1956 - 1959
Herbert B. Cohen1955 - 1956
Frank F. Truscott1953 - 1955
Robert E. Woodside1951 - 1953
Charles J. Margiotti1950 - 1951
T. McKeen Chidsey1947 - 1950
James H. Duff1943 - 1947
E. Russell Shockley1942 - 1943
Claude Trexler Reno1939 - 1942
Guy H. Bard1938 - 1939
Charles J. Margiotti1935 - 1938
Cyrus E. Woods1929 - 1930
Thomas J. Baldridge1927 - 1929
George W. Woodruff1923 - 1927
George E. Alter1920 - 1923
William I. Schaffer1919 - 1920
Francis Shunk Brown1915 - 1919
John C. Bell1911 - 1915
Moses Hampton Todd1907 - 1911
Hampton L. Carson1903 - 1907
John P. Elkin1899 - 1903
Henry C. McCormick1895 - 1899
W.U. Hensel1891 - 1895
William S. Kirkpatrick1887 - 1891
Lewis C. Cassidy1883 - 1887
Henry W. Palmer1879 - 1883
George Lear1875 - 1879
Samuel E. Dimmick1873 - 1875
F. Carroll Brewster1869 - 1873
Benjamin Harris Brewster1869 - 1873
William M. Meredith1861 - 1867
Samuel A. Purviance1861
John C. Knox1858 - 1861
Thomas E. Franklin1855 - 1858
Francis W. Hughes1853 - 1855
James Campbell1852 - 1853
Thomas E. Franklin1851 - 1852
Cornelius Darrah1849 - 1851
James Cooper1848
Benjamin Champneys1846 - 1848
John M. Reed1846
John K. Kane1845 - 1846
Ovid F. Johnson1839 - 1845
William B. Reed1838 - 1839
James Todd1835 - 1838
George M. Dallas1833 - 1835
Ellis Lewis1833
Samuel Douglass1830 - 1833
Philip S. Marclay1829 - 1830
Amos Ellmaker1828 - 1829
Calvin Blythe1828
Frederick Smith1828 - 1828
Thomas Elder1820 - 1823
Thomas Sergeant1819 - 1820
Amos Ellmaker1816 - 1819
Jared Ingersoll1811 - 1816
Richard Rush1811
Walter Franklin1810 - 1811
Mahlon Dickerson1808 - 1809
Joseph B. McKean1800 - 1808
Jared Ingersoll1791 - 1800
William Bradford1780 - 1791
Jonathan D. Sergeant1777 - 1780
John Morris, Jr.1777

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