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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

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