A chronological list of past Pennsylvania attorneys general is below.
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| Josh Shapiro | 2016 – Present |
| Kathleen Kane | 2012 – 2016 |
| Gerald J. Pappert | 2004 – 2005 |
| D. Michael Fisher | 1997 – 2004 |
| Thomas W. Corbett, Jr. | 1995 – 1997 |
| Ermest D. Preate, Jr. | 1989 – 1995 |
| Leroy S. Zimmerman | 1981 – 1989 |
| Harvey Bartle, III | Appointed: May 1980 |
| Edward G. Biester, Jr. | Appointed: Jan. 16, 1979 |
| J. Justin Blewitt, Jr. | Appointed: Jan. 1, 1979 |
| Gerald Gornish | Appointed: June 1978 |
| Robin P. Kane | Appointed: January 1975 |
| Israel Packel | Appointed: January 1973 |
| J. Shane Creamer | Appointed: January 1971 |
| Fred Speaker | Appointed: January 1970 |
| William C. Sennett | Appointed: January 1967 |
| Edward Friedman | Appointed: May 1966 |
| Walter E. Alessandroni | Appointed: January 1963 |
| David Stahl | Appointed: August 1961 |
| Anne X. Alpern | Appointed: January 1959 |
| Harrington Adams | Appointed: December 1958 |
| Thomas D. McBride | Appointed: December 1956 |
| Herbert B. Cohen | Appointed: January 1955 |
| Frank F. Truscott | Appointed: October 1953 |
| Robert E. Woodside | Appointed: March 1951 |
| Charles J. Margiotti | Appointed: July 1950 |
| T. McKean Chidsey | Appointed: January 1947 |
| James H. Duff | Appointed: Jan. 20, 1943 |
| E. Russell Shockley | Appointed: Jan. 1, 1943 |
| Claude Trexler Reno | Appointed: January 1939 |
| Guy H. Bard | Appointed: April 1938 |
| Charles J. Margiotti | Appointed: January 1935 |
| Cyrus E. Woods | Appointed: January 1929 |
| Thomas J. Baldridge | Appointed: January 1927 |
| George W. Woodruff | Appointed: January 1923 |
| George E. Alter | Appointed: December 1920 |
| William I. Schaffer | Appointed: January 1919 |
| Francis Shunk Brown | Appointed: January 1915 |
| John C. Bell | Appointed: January 1911 |
| Moses Hampton Todd | Appointed: January 1907 |
| Hampton L. Carson | Appointed: January 1903 |
| John P. Elkin | Appointed: January 1899 |
| Henry C. McCormick | Appointed: January 1985 |
| W.U. Hensel | Appointed: January 1891 |
| William S. Kirkpatrick | Appomted: January 1887 |
| Lewis C. Cassidy | Appointed: January 1883 |
| Henry W. Palmer | Appointed: February 1879 |
| George Lear | Appointed: December 1875 |
| Samuel E. Dimmick | Appointed: January 1873 |
| F. Carroll Brewster | Appointed: October 1869 |
| Benjamin Harris Brewster | Appointed: January 1867 |
| William M. Meredith | Appointed: June 1861 |
| Samuel A. Purviance | Appointed: January 1861 |
| John C. Knox | Appointed: January 1858 |
| Thomas E. Franklin | Appointed: January 1855 |
| Francis W. Hughes | Appointed: March 1853 |
| James Campbell | Appointed: January 1852 |
| Thomas E. Franklin | Appointed: April 1851 |
| Cornelius Darrah | Appointed: January 1849 |
| James Cooper | Appointed: July 1848 |
| Benjamin Champneys | Appointed: December 1846 |
| John M. Reed | Appointed: June 1846 |
| John K. Kane | Appointed: January 1845 |
| Ovid F. Johnson | Appointed: January 1839 |
| William B. Reed | Appointed: March 1838 |
| James Todd | Appointed: December 1835 |
| George M. Dallas | Appointed: October 1833 |
| Ellis Lewis | Appointed: January 1833 |
| Samuel Douglass | Appointed: February 1830 |
| Philip S. Marclay | Appointed: August 1829 |
| Amos Ellmaker | Appointed: May 1828 |
| Calvin Blythe | Appointed: February 1828 |
| Frederick Smith | Appointed: December 1823 |
| Thomas Elder | Appointed: December 1820 |
| Thomas Sergeant | Appointed: July 7 |
| Amos Ellmaker | Appointed: December 1816 |
| Jared Ingersoll | Appointed: December 1811 |
| Richard Rush | Appointed: January 1811 |
| Walter Franklin | Appointed: January 1809 |
| Mahlon Dickerson | Appointed: July 1808 |
| Joseph B. McKean | Appointed: May 1800 |
| Jared Ingersoll | Appointed: August 1791 |
| William Bradford | Appointed: June 1791 |
