ALABAMA'S ATTORNEYS GENERAL
CURRENT ATTORNEY GENERAL:

TROY KING (2004 - )
King was appointed March 8, 2004, by Governor Bob Riley to fill the vacancy created by Bill Pryor's resignation.

Bill Pryor:1997-2004
February 20, 2004 Bill Pryor resigned as Attorney General of Alabama to accept a recess appointment from President George W. Bush as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, eleventh circuit.		 Jeff Sessions: 1995-1997
In November 1996 Sessions was elected to the U.S. Senate
Jimmy Evans: 1991-1995
 Don Siegelman: 1987-1991
Charles Graddick: 1979-1987
 William J. Baxley: 1971-1979
MacDonald Gallion: 1967-1971
 Richmond Flowers: 1963-1967
MacDonald Gallion: 1959-1963
 John Patterson: 1955-1959
Bernard Sykes: 1954-1955 (appointed acting
Attorney General June 24, 1954)
Si Garrett: 1951-1954
Albert A. Carmichael: 1947-1951
 William Northington McQueen: 1943-1947
Thomas S. Lawson: 1939-1943
 Albert A. Carmichael: 1935-1939
Thomas E. Knight: 1931-1935
 Charlie C. McCall: 1927-1931
Harwell G. Davis: 1923-1927
 James Q. Smith: 1919-1923
William Logan Martin: 1915-1919
 Robert C. Brickell: 1911-1915
Alexander M. Garber: 1907-1911
 Massey Wilson: 1903-1907
Charles G. Brown: 1898-1903
 William C. Fitts: 1894-1898
William L. Martin: 1889-1894 Thomas N. McClellan: 1884-1889
Henry C. Tompkins: 1878-1884
 John W. A. Sanford: 1874-1878
Benjamin Gardner: 1872-1874
 John W. A. Sanford: 1870-1872
Joshua Morse: 1868-1870
 John W. A. Sanford: 1865-1868
Marion A. Baldwin: 1847-1865
 William H. Martin: 1847
Matthew W. Lindsay: 1839-1843
 Lincoln Clark: 1838-1839
John Dennis Phelan 1836-1838
 Thomas D. Clarke: 1843-1847
Alexander B. Meek: 1836 (appointed to fill the
vacancy created when Peter Martin was
appointed to the circuit court bench.)
Peter Martin: 1832-1836
Constantine Perkins: 1825-1832
 Thomas White: 1823-1825
Henry Hitchcock: 1819-1823

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Updated: August 14, 2007
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