Massachusetts Attorney General

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The Massachusetts Attorney General is an executive officer of the Massachusetts Government. The current Attorney General is Martha Coakley.

The Attorney General is the chief law enforcement officer and lawyer for Massachusetts. There are five bureaus in the Attorney General's Office: Executive, Business and Labor Protection, Criminal, Government, and Public Protection.

Attorney General Term Party
Anthony Checkley 1680 –
Benjamin Bullivant 1686 –
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Paul Dudley 1702 – 1718
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Robert Treat Paine 1777 – 1790
James Sullivan 1790 – 1807 Democratic-Republican
Barnabas Bidwell June 15, 1807 – August 30, 1810
Perez Morton 1810 – 1832
James T. Austin 1832 – 1843
Office Abolished 1843 - 1849
John Henry Clifford 1849 – 1853 Whig
Rufus Choate 1853 – May 12, 1854 Whig
John Henry Clifford 1854 – 1858 Whig
Stephen Henry Phillips 1858 – 1861
Dwight Foster 1861 – 1864
Chester L. Reed 1864 – April 20, 1867
Charles Allen 1867 – 1872
Charles R. Train 1872 - 1879 Republican
George Marston 1879 - 1883
Edgar J. Sherman 1883 - October 1, 1887
Andrew J. Waterman 1887 - 1891
Albert E. Pillsbury 1891 - 1894
Hosea M. Knowlton 1894 - 1902
Herbert Parker 1902 - 1906
Dana Malone 1906 - 1911
James M. Swift 1911 - 1914
Thomas J. Boynton 1914 - 1915
Henry Converse Atwill 1915 - 1919 Republican
Henry A. Wyman 1919 - 1920
J. Weston Allen 1920 - 1923
Jay R. Benton 1923 - 1927 Republican
Arthur K. Reading 1927 - June 6, 1928
Joseph E. Warner 1928 - 1935 Republican
Paul A. Dever 1935 – 1941 Democratic
Robert T. Bushnell 1941 - 1945
Clarence A. Barnes 1945 – 1949 Republican
Francis E. Kelly 1949 – 1953 Democratic
George Fingold 1953 - August 31, 1958
Edward T. Martin 1958
Edward J. McCormack, Jr. 1958 - 1963 Democratic
Edward W. Brooke January 1963 – January 1967 Republican
Elliot L. Richardson January 1967 – January 1969 Republican
Robert H. Quinn January 1969 – January 1975 Democratic
Francis X. Bellotti January 1975 – January 1987 Democratic
James Shannon January 1987 – January 1991 Democratic
Scott Harshbarger January 1991 – January 1999 Democratic
Thomas Reilly January 1999 – January 2007 Democratic
Martha Coakley January 2007 – present Democratic
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State Attorneys General in the United States
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AK: Talis J. Colberg
AL: Troy King
AR: Dustin McDaniel
AZ: Terry Goddard
CA: Jerry Brown
CO: John Suthers
CT: Richard Blumenthal
DE: Beau Biden
FL: Bill McCollum
GA: Thurbert Baker

HI: Mark J. Bennett
IA: Tom Miller
ID: Lawrence Wasden
IL: Lisa Madigan
IN: Steve Carter
KS: Paul J. Morrison
KY: Jack Conway
LA: Charles Foti
MA: Martha Coakley
MD: Doug Gansler

ME: G. Steven Rowe
MI: Mike Cox
MN: Lori Swanson
MO: Jay Nixon
MS: Jim Hood
MT: Mike McGrath
NC: Roy A. Cooper
ND: Wayne Stenehjem
NE: Jon Bruning
NH: Kelly Ayotte

NJ: Anne Milgram
NM: Gary King
NV: Catherine Cortez Masto
NY: Andrew Cuomo
OH: Marc Dann
OK: Drew Edmondson
OR: Hardy Myers
PA: Tom Corbett
RI: Patrick C. Lynch
SC: Henry McMaster

SD: Larry Long
TN: Robert E. Cooper, Jr.
TX: Greg Abbott
UT: Mark Shurtleff
VA: Bob McDonnell
VT: William Sorrell
WA: Rob McKenna
WI: J. B. Van Hollen
WV: Darrell McGraw
WY: Patrick Crank

Other members of the National Association of Attorneys General
AS: Afa Ripley, Jr. • GU: Alicia Limtiaco • NMI: Matt Gregory • PR: Roberto Sánchez Ramos • VI: Kerry Drue
DC: Linda Singer • United States: Michael Mukasey (honorary member)
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