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U.S. District Attorneys in Delaware

U.S. District Attorneys for Delaware, 1789-2012 (may be incomplete!)
George Read II 1789-1816 George Read III 1816-37 James A. Bayard 1837-43 William H. Rogers 1843-49 P. Sheward Johnson 1849-53 Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. 1853-55 Daniel M. Bates 1855-61 Edward G. Bradford 1861-66 John Lockwood Pratt 1866-69 Anthony Higgins 1869-76 William C. Spruance 1876-80 John C. Patterson 1880-88 Alex B. Cooper 1888-91 Beniah Watson 1891-94 Lewis C. Vandergrift 1894-99 W. Michael Byrne 1899-1902 John P. Nields 1902 W. Michael Byrne 1902-03 John P. Nields 1903-16 Charles F. Curley 1916-20 James H. Hughes, Jr. 1920-24 David J. Reinhardt 1924-27 Leonard E. Wales 1927-35 John J. Morris, Jr. 1935-39 Charles S. Lynch 1939-44 John J. Morris, Jr. 1944-48 William Marvel 1948-53 Leonard G. Hagner 1953-61 Alexander Greenfield 1961-69 F. L. Peter Stone 1969-72 Norman Levine 1972-73 Ralph F. Keil 1973-75 W. Laird Stabler, Jr. 1975-77 John H. McDonald 1977 James W. Gavin, Jr. 1977-81 Joseph J. Farnan 1981-85 William C. Carpenter 1985-93 Richard G. Andrews 1993 Gregory M. Sleet 1993-98 Richard Andrews 1998 Carl Schnee 1999-2001 Colm F. Connolly 2001-09 David C. Weiss 2009-10 Charles M. Oberly III 2010-

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