Justice

Department of Justice
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales


Previous Attorney Generals listed after headlines

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1789 – 1794 Edmund Randolph
1794 – 1795 William Bradford
1795 – 1801 Charles Lee
1801 – 1805 Levi Lincoln, Sr.
1805 Robert Smith
1805 – 1806 John Breckinridge
1807 – 1811 Caesar A. Rodney
1811 – 1814 William Pinkney
1814 – 1817 Richard Rush
1817 – 1829 William Wirt
1829 – 1831 John M. Berrien
1831 – 1833 Roger B. Taney
1833 – 1838 Benjamin F. Butler
1838 – 1839 Felix Grundy
1840 – 1841 Henry Gilpin
1841 – 1841 John J. Crittenden
1841 – 1843 Hugh S. Legaré
1843 – 1845 John Nelson
1845 – 1846 John Y. Mason
1846 – 1848 Nathan Clifford
1848 – 1849 Isaac Toucey
1849 – 1850 Reverdy Johnson
1850 – 1853 John J. Crittenden
1853 – 1857 Caleb Cushing
1857 – 1860 Jeremiah S. Black
1860 – 1861 Edwin M. Stanton
1861 – 1864 Edward Bates
1864 – 1866 James Speed
1866 – 1868 Henry Stanbery
1868 – 1869 William M. Evarts
1869 – 1870 Ebenezer R. Hoar
1870 – 1872 Amos T. Akerman
1871 – 1875 George H. Williams
1875 – 1876 Edwards Pierrepont
1876 – 1877 Alphonso Taft
1877 – 1881 Charles Devens
1881 – 1881 Wayne MacVeagh
1881 – 1885 Benjamin H. Brewster
1885 – 1889 Augustus Hill Garland
1889 – 1893 William H.H. Miller
1893 – 1895 Richard Olney
1895 – 1897 Judson Harmon
1897 – 1898 Joseph McKenna
1898 – 1901 John W. Griggs
1901 – 1904 Philander C. Knox
1904 – 1906 William H. Moody
1906 – 1909 Charles Joseph Bonaparte
1909 – 1913 George W. Wickersham
1913 – 1914 James C. McReynolds
1914 – 1919 Thomas Watt Gregory
1919 – 1921 A. Mitchell Palmer
1921 – 1924 Harry M. Daugherty
1924 – 1925 Harlan Fiske Stone
1925 – 1929 John G. Sargent
1929 – 1933 William D. Mitchell
1933 – 1939 Homer S. Cummings
1939 – 1940 Frank Murphy
1940 – 1941 Robert H. Jackson
1941 – 1945 Francis Biddle
1945 – 1949 Tom C. Clark
1949 – 1952 J. Howard McGrath
1952 – 1953 James P. McGranery
1953 – 1957 Herbert Brownell, Jr.
1957 – 1961 William P. Rogers
1961 – 1964 Robert F. Kennedy
1965 – 1966 Nicholas deB. Katzenbach
1967 – 1969 Ramsey Clark
1969 – 1972 John Mitchell
1972 – 1973 Richard G. Kleindienst
1973 – 1973 Elliot L. Richardson
1974 – 1975 William B. Saxbe
1975 – 1977 Edward H. Levi
1977 – 1979 Griffin B. Bell
1979 – 1981 Benjamin R. Civiletti
1981 – 1985 William French Smith
1985 – 1988 Edwin Meese III
1988 – 1991 Richard L. Thornburgh
1991 – 1993 William Barr
1993 – 2001 Janet Reno
2001 – 2005 John Ashcroft
2005 – present Alberto Gonzales