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 |