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United States Attorney General

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The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The current Attorney General is Alberto Gonzales.

The members of the Department of Justice represent the United States in legal matters generally and offer advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested. The Attorney General appears in person to represent the Government before the Supreme Court of the United States in cases of exceptional importance. Under most circumstances the United States Solicitor General argues before the Supreme Court on the government's behalf.

The Attorney General is a member of the President's Cabinet, the only member who is not given the title Secretary.

United States Attorneys General
Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
Edmund Randolph	1789 – 1794	George Washington
William Bradford	1794 – 1795	George Washington
Charles Lee	1795 – 1801	George Washington, John Adams
Levi Lincoln	1801 – 1805	Thomas Jefferson
Robert Smith	1805	Thomas Jefferson
John Breckinridge	1805 – 1806	Thomas Jefferson
Caesar A. Rodney	1807 – 1811	Thomas Jefferson, James Madison
William Pinkney	1811 – 1814	James Madison
Richard Rush	1814 – 1817	James Madison
William Wirt	1817 – 1829	James Monroe, John Quincy Adams
John M. Berrien	1829 – 1831	Andrew Jackson
Roger B. Taney	1831 – 1833	Andrew Jackson
Benjamin F. Butler	1833 – 1838	Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
Felix Grundy	1838 – 1839	Martin Van Buren
Henry Gilpin	1840 – 1841	Martin Van Buren
John J. Crittenden	1841 – 1841	William Henry Harrison, John Tyler
Hugh S. Legaré	1841 – 1843	John Tyler
John Nelson (lawyer)	1843 – 1845	John Tyler
John Y. Mason	1845 – 1846	James Knox Polk
Nathan Clifford	1846 – 1848	James Knox Polk
Isaac Toucey	1848 – 1849	James Knox Polk
Reverdy Johnson	1849 – 1850	Zachary Taylor
John J. Crittenden	1850 – 1853	Millard Fillmore
Caleb Cushing	1853 – 1857	Franklin Pierce
Jeremiah S. Black	1857 – 1860	James Buchanan
Edwin M. Stanton	1860 – 1861	James Buchanan
Edward Bates	1861 – 1864	Abraham Lincoln
James Speed	1864 – 1866	Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
Henry Stanberry	1866 – 1868	Andrew Johnson
William M. Evarts	1868 – 1869	Andrew Johnson
Ebenezer R. Hoar	1869 – 1870	Ulysses S. Grant
Amos T. Akerman	1870 – 1872	Ulysses S. Grant
George H. Williams	1871 – 1875	Ulysses S. Grant
Edwards Pierrepont	1875 – 1876	Ulysses S. Grant
Alphonso Taft	1876 – 1877	Ulysses S. Grant
Charles Devens	1877 – 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes
Wayne MacVeagh	1881 – 1881	James Garfield
Benjamin H. Brewster	1881 – 1885	Chester A. Arthur
Augustus Hill Garland	1885 – 1889	Grover Cleveland
William H.H. Miller	1889 – 1893	Benjamin Harrison
Richard Olney	1893 – 1895	Grover Cleveland
Judson Harmon	1895 – 1897	Grover Cleveland
Joseph McKenna	1897 – 1898	William McKinley
John W. Griggs	1898 – 1901	William McKinley
Philander C. Knox	1901 – 1904	William McKinley
William H. Moody	1904 – 1906	Theodore Roosevelt
Charles Joseph Bonaparte	1906 – 1909	Theodore Roosevelt
George W. Wickersham	1909 – 1913	William Howard Taft
James C. McReynolds	1913 – 1914	Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Watt Gregory	1914 – 1919	Woodrow Wilson
A. Mitchell Palmer	1919 – 1921	Woodrow Wilson
Harry M. Daugherty	1921 – 1924	Warren G. Harding
Harlan Fiske Stone	1924 – 1925	Calvin Coolidge
John G. Sargent	1925 – 1929	Calvin Coolidge
William D. Mitchell	1929 – 1933	Herbert Hoover
Homer S. Cummings	1933 – 1939	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Frank Murphy	1939 – 1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Robert H. Jackson	1940 – 1941	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Francis Biddle	1941 – 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Tom C. Clark	1945 – 1949	Harry S. Truman
J. Howard McGrath	1949 – 1952	Harry S. Truman
James P. McGranery	1952 – 1953	Harry S. Truman
Herbert Brownell, Jr.	1953 – 1957	Dwight D. Eisenhower
William P. Rogers	1957 – 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert F. Kennedy	1961 – 1964	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach	1965 – 1966	Lyndon Johnson
Ramsey Clark	1967 – 1969	Lyndon Johnson
John Mitchell	1969 – 1972	Richard Nixon
Richard G. Kleindienst	1972 – 1973	Richard Nixon
Elliot L. Richardson	1973 – 1973	Richard Nixon
William B. Saxbe	1974 – 1975	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
Edward H. Levi	1975 – 1977	Gerald Ford
Griffin B. Bell	1977 – 1979	Jimmy Carter
Benjamin R. Civiletti	1979 – 1981	Jimmy Carter
William French Smith	1981 – 1985	Ronald Reagan
Edwin Meese III	1985 – 1988	Ronald Reagan
Richard L. Thornburgh	1988 – 1991	Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush
William Barr	1991 – 1993	George H. W. Bush
Janet Reno	1993 – 2001	Bill Clinton
John Ashcroft	2001 – 2005	George W. Bush
Alberto Gonzales	2005 – present	George W. Bush

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Biographies of the Attorneys General

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