A chronological list of past Rhode Island attorneys general is below.
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Peter Neronha | 2019 – Present |
Peter Kilmartin | 2011 – 2019 |
Patrick Lynch | 2003 – 2011 |
Sheldon Whitehouse | 1999 – 2003 |
Jeffrey B. Pine | 1993 – 1999 |
James E. O’Neill | 1987 – 1993 |
Arlene N. Violet | 1987 – 1985 |
Dennis J. Roberts, II | 1979 – 1985 |
Julius C. Michaelson | 1975 – 1979 |
Richard J. Israel | 1971 – 1975 |
William E. Powers | 1949 – 1958 |
John H. Nolan | 1941 – 1949 |
Louis V. Jackvony | 1939 – 1941 |
John P. Hartigan | 1933 – 1939 |
Benjamin M. McLyman | 1930 – 1933 |
Oscar L. Heltzen | 1929 – 1930 |
Herbert L. Carpenter | 1923 – 1925 |
Charles P. Sisson | 1922 – 1929 |
Herbert A. Rice | 1912 – 1923 |
William B. Greenough | 1905 – 1912 |
Charles F. Stearns | 1901 – 1905 |