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U.S. District Attorneys in Massachusetts

U.S. District Attorneys for Massachusetts, 1789-1998 (may be incomplete!)
Christopher Gore 1789-96 Harrison Gray Otis 1796 John Davis 1796-1801 George Blake 1801-29 Andrew Dunlop 1829-35 John Mills 1835-41 Franklin Dexter 1841-45 Robert Rantoul, Jr. 1845-50 George Lunt 1850-53 Benjamin F. Hallett 1853-57 Charles Levi Woodbury 1857-61 Richard H. Dana, Jr. 1861-66 George S. Hillard 1868-70 David H. Mason 1870-73 George P. Sanger 1873-86 George M. Stearns 1886-87 Owen A. Galvin 1887-90 Frank D. Allen 1890-93 Sherman Hoar 1893-97 Boyd B. Jones 1897-1901 Henry P. Moultin 1901-05 Melvin O. Adams 1905-06 Asa P. French 1906-14 George W. Anderson 1914-17 Thomas J. Boynton 1917-20 Daniel J. Gallagher 1920-21 Robert O. Harris 1921-25 Harold P. Williams 1925-26 Frederick H. Tarr 1926-33 Francis J. W. Ford 1933-38 John A. Canavan 1938-39 Edmund J. Brandon 1939-46 George F. Garrity 1946-47 William T. McCarthy 1947-49 George F. Garrity 1949-53 Anthony Julian 1953-59 Elliot L. Richardson 1959-61 W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. 1961-66 Paul F. Markham 1966-69 Herbert F. Travers, Jr. 1969-71 James N. Gabriel 1971-72 Joseph L. Tauro 1972 James N. Gabriel 1973-77 Edward F. Harrington 1977-81 William F. Weld 1981-86 Robert S. Mueller III 1986-87 Frank L. McNamara, Jr. 1987-89 Jermiah T. O'Sullivan 1989 Peter A. Mullin 1989 Wayne A. Budd 1989-93 A. John Pappalardo 1993 Donald K. Stern 1993-98

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