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U.S. District Attorneys in Maine

U.S. District Attorneys for Maine, 1789-1998 (may be incomplete!)
William Lithgow, Jr. 1789-96 Daniel Davis 1796-1801 Silas Lee 1801-14 William Pitt Preble 1814-20 Ether Shepley 1820-33 John Anderson 1833-37 Joseph Howard 1837-41 John Holmes 1841-43 Gorham Parks 1843-45 Augustine Haines 1845-48 George F. Shepley 1848-49 Thomas A. Deblois 1849-53 George F. Shepley 1853-61 George F. Talbot 1861-70 Nathan Webb 1870-78 Wilbur F. Lunt 1878-85 George E. Bird 1886-90 Issac W. Dyer 1890-94 Albert W. Bradbury 1894-98 Issac W. Dyer 1898-1906 Robert T. Whitehouse 1906-14 Stephen C. Perry 1914-15 John F. A. Merrill 1915-22 Frederick R. Dyer 1922-33 John D. Clifford 1933-47 Edward J. Harrington 1947 Alton A. Lessard 1947-53 Peter Mills 1953-61 Alton A. Lessard 1961-65 William E. McKinley, Jr. 1965 Lloyd P. LaFountain 1966-69 Peter Mills 1969-77 George J. Mitchell 1977-79 James W. Brannigan, Jr. 1979-80 Thomas E. Delehanty II 1980-81 Richard S. Cohen 1981-93 Jay P. McCloskey 1993-98

Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

  • 1843 Jul 7: John Holmes, died in office.
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