A chronological list of past Pennsylvania attorneys general is below.
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| Bruce Beemer | 2016 – 2017 |
| Bruce Castor | 2016 |
| Kathleen Kane | 2013 – 2016 |
| Linda Kelly | 2011 – 2013 |
| William Ryan | 2011 |
| Tom Corbett | 2005 – 2011 |
| Jerry Pappert | 2004 – 2005 |
| Mike Fisher | 1997 – 2004 |
| Walter W. Cohen | 1995 |
| Ernie Preate | 1989 – 1995 |
| Leroy S. Zimmerman | 1981 – 1989 |
| Harvey Bartle, III | 1980 – 1981 |
| Edward G. Biester, Jr. | 1979 – 1980 |
| J. Justin Blewitt, Jr. | 1979 |
| Gerald Gornish | 1978 |
| Robin P. Kane | 1975 – 1978 |
| Israel Packel | 1973 – 1974 |
| J. Shane Creamer | 1970 – 1972 |
| Fred Speaker | 1970 – 1971 |
| William C. Sennett | 1967 – 1970 |
| Edward Friedman | 1966 – 1967 |
| Walter E. Alessandroni | 1963 – 1966 |
| David Stahl | 1961 – 1963 |
| Anne X. Alpern | 1959 – 1961 |
| Thomas D. McBride | 1956 – 1959 |
| Herbert B. Cohen | 1955 – 1956 |
| Frank F. Truscott | 1953 – 1955 |
| Robert E. Woodside | 1951 – 1953 |
| Charles J. Margiotti | 1950 – 1951 |
| T. McKeen Chidsey | 1947 – 1950 |
| James H. Duff | 1943 – 1947 |
| E. Russell Shockley | 1942 – 1943 |
| Claude Trexler Reno | 1939 – 1942 |
| Guy H. Bard | 1938 – 1939 |
| Charles J. Margiotti | 1935 – 1938 |
| Cyrus E. Woods | 1929 – 1930 |
| Thomas J. Baldridge | 1927 – 1929 |
| George W. Woodruff | 1923 – 1927 |
| George E. Alter | 1920 – 1923 |
| William I. Schaffer | 1919 – 1920 |
| Francis Shunk Brown | 1915 – 1919 |
| John C. Bell | 1911 – 1915 |
| Moses Hampton Todd | 1907 – 1911 |
| Hampton L. Carson | 1903 – 1907 |
| John P. Elkin | 1899 – 1903 |
| Henry C. McCormick | 1895 – 1899 |
| W.U. Hensel | 1891 – 1895 |
| William S. Kirkpatrick | 1887 – 1891 |
| Lewis C. Cassidy | 1883 – 1887 |
| Henry W. Palmer | 1879 – 1883 |
| George Lear | 1875 – 1879 |
| Samuel E. Dimmick | 1873 – 1875 |
| F. Carroll Brewster | 1869 – 1873 |
| Benjamin Harris Brewster | 1869 – 1873 |
| William M. Meredith | 1861 – 1867 |
| Samuel A. Purviance | 1861 |
| John C. Knox | 1858 – 1861 |
| Thomas E. Franklin | 1855 – 1858 |
| Francis W. Hughes | 1853 – 1855 |
| James Campbell | 1852 – 1853 |
| Thomas E. Franklin | 1851 – 1852 |
| Cornelius Darrah | 1849 – 1851 |
| James Cooper | 1848 |
| Benjamin Champneys | 1846 – 1848 |
| John M. Reed | 1846 |
| John K. Kane | 1845 – 1846 |
| Ovid F. Johnson | 1839 – 1845 |
| William B. Reed | 1838 – 1839 |
| James Todd | 1835 – 1838 |
| George M. Dallas | 1833 – 1835 |
| Ellis Lewis | 1833 |
| Samuel Douglass | 1830 – 1833 |
| Philip S. Marclay | 1829 – 1830 |
| Amos Ellmaker | 1828 – 1829 |
| Calvin Blythe | 1828 |
| Frederick Smith | 1828 – 1828 |
| Thomas Elder | 1820 – 1823 |
| Thomas Sergeant | 1819 – 1820 |
| Amos Ellmaker | 1816 – 1819 |
| Jared Ingersoll | 1811 – 1816 |
| Richard Rush | 1811 |
| Walter Franklin | 1810 – 1811 |
| Mahlon Dickerson | 1808 – 1809 |
| Joseph B. McKean | 1800 – 1808 |
| Jared Ingersoll | 1791 – 1800 |
| William Bradford | 1780 – 1791 |
| Jonathan D. Sergeant | 1777 – 1780 |
| John Morris, Jr. | 1777 |
