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Massachusetts Former Attorneys General

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Former attorneys general are listed in reverse chronological order.

Former Attorney GeneralTerm of Service
Martha Coakley2007 – 2015
Thomas Reilly1999 – 2007
L. Scott Harshbarger1991 – 1999
James M. Shannon1987 – 1991
Francis X. Bellotti1975 – 1987
Robert H. Quinn1969 – 1975
Elliot L. Richardson1967 – 1969
Edward T. Martin1967
Edward W. Brooke1963 – 1967
Edward J. McCormack, Jr.1958 – 1963
George Fingold1953 – 1958
Francis E. Kelly1949 – 1953
Clarence A. Barnes1945 – 1949
Robert T. Bushnell1941 – 1945
Paul E. Dever1935 – 1941
Joseph E. Warner1928 – 1935
Arthur K. Reading1927 – 1928
Jay R. Benton1923 – 1927
J. Weston Allen1920 – 1923
Henry C. Wyman1919 – 1920
Henry C. Attwill1915 – 1919
Thomas J. Boynton1914 – 1915
James M. Swift1911 – 1914
Dana Malone1906 – 1911
Herbert Parker1902 – 1906
Hosea M. Knowlton1894 – 1902
Albert E. Pillsbury1891 – 1894
Andrew J. Waterman1887 – 1891
Edgar J. Sherman1883 – 1887
George Marston1879 – 1883
Charles R. Train1872 – 1879
Charles Allen1867 – 1872
Chester I. Reed1864 – 1867
Dwight Foster1861 – 1864
Stephen Henry Phillips1858 – 1861
John H. Clifford1854 – 1858
Rufus Choate1853 – 1854
John H. Clifford1849 – 1853
Office Abolished1843 – 1849
James T. Austin1832 – 1843
Perez Morton1810 – 1832
Barnabas Bidwell1807 – 1810
James Sullivan1790 – 1807
Robert Treat Paine1778 – 1790
Benjamin Kent1776 – 1778
Vacant1774 – 1776
Jonathan Sewall1767 – 1774
Jeremiah Gridley1767
Edmund Trowbridge1738 – 1767
William Brattle1736 – 1738
John Overing1729 – 1736
Joseph Hiller1728 – 1729
John Read1725 – 1728
Vacant1723 – 1725
John Overing1722 – 1723
Vacant1721 – 1722
Thomas Newton1720 – 1721
John Valentine1718 – 1720
Paul Dudley1702 – 1718

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