The Political Graveyard: U.S. District Attorneys in New York

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U.S. District Attorneys in New York

U.S. District Attorneys for New York, 1789-1815 (may be incomplete!)
Richard Harison 1789-1801 Edward Livingston 1801-03 Nathan Sanford 1803-15

U.S. District Attorneys for New York, 1865-1998 (may be incomplete!)
Benjamin D. Silliman 1865-66 Benjamin F. Tracy 1866-77 Asa W. Tenney 1877-85 Mark D. Wilber 1885-89 Jesse Johnson 1889-94 John Oakey 1894 James L. Bennett 1894-98 George H. Pettit 1898-1902 William J. Youngs 1902-15 Louis R. Bick 1915 Melville J. France 1915-19 James D. Bell 1919 LeRoy W. Ross 1919-21 Wallace E. J. Collins 1921 Ralph C. Greene 1921-25 William A. De Groot 1925-29 Howard W. Ameli 1929-34 Leo J. Hickey 1934-37 Harold St. Leo O'Dougherty 1937-38 Michael F. Walsh 1938-39 Vine H. Smith 1939 Harold M. Kennedy 1939-44 T. Vincent Quinn 1944-45 Miles F. McDonald 1945 T. Vincent Quinn 1945-46 J. Vincent Keogh 1946-50 Frank J. Parker 1950-53 Leonard P. Moore 1953-57 Cornelius W. Wickersham, Jr. 1957-61 Elliot Kahaner 1961 Joseph P. Hoey 1961-69 Vincent T. McCarthy 1969 Edward A. Neaher 1969-71 Robert A. Morse 1971-73 Edward J. Boyd 1973-74 David G. Trager 1974-78 Edward R. Korman 1978-82 Raymond J. Dearie 1982-86 Reena Raggi 1986 Andrew J. Maloney 1986-92 Mary Jo White 1992-93 Zachary W. Carter 1993-98

U.S. District Attorneys for New York, 1815-1998 (may be incomplete!)
Roger Skinner 1815-19 Jacob Sutherland 1819-23 Samuel Beardsley 1823-31 Nathaniel S. Benton 1831 Joshua A. Spencer 1841-45 William F. Allen 1845-47 George W. Clinton 1847-50 James R. Lawrence 1850-53 Henry A. Foster 1853 John B. Skinner 1853 Samuel B. Garvin 1853-58 James B. Spencer 1858-61 William A. Dart 1861 Richard Crowley 1875-79 Martin I. Townsend 1879-86 Daniel N. Lockwood 1886-89 De Alva S. Alexander 1889-93 William A. Poucher 1893-97 Emory P. Close 1897-99 Charles H. Brown 1899-1900 George B. Curtiss 1900-13 John H. Gleason 1913-16 Dennis B. Lucey 1916-21 Clarence E. Williams 1921 Hiram C. Todd 1921-22 Earle Gallufo 1922 Benjamin C. Mead 1922-23 Oliver D. Burden 1923-36 Ralph L. Emmons 1936-43 Irving J. Higbee 1943-51 Edmund Port 1951-53 Anthony F. Caffrey 1953 Theodore F. Bowes 1953-61 Justin J. Mahoney 1961-69 James M. Sullivan, Jr. 1969 Samuel T. Betts III 1969-73 James M. Sullivan, Jr. 1973-76 Paul V. French 1976-78 George H. Lowe 1978-82 Gustove J. DiBianco 1982 Frederick J. Scullin, Jr. 1982-92 Gary L. Sharpe 1992-94 Thomas J. Maroney 1994-98

U.S. District Attorneys for New York, 1815-2020 (may be incomplete!)
Jonathan Fisk 1815-19 Robert L. Tillotson 1819-28 John Duer 1828-29 James A. Hamilton 1829-34 William M. Price 1834-38 Benjamin F. Butler 1838-41 Ogden Hoffman 1841-45 Benjamin F. Butler 1845-48 Charles McVean 1848 Lorenzo B. Shepard 1849-50 J. Prescott Hall 1850-53 Charles O'Conor 1853-54 John McKeon 1854-58 Theodore Sedgwick 1858-59 James I. Roosevelt 1859-61 E. Delafield Smith 1861-65 Daniel S. Dickinson 1865-66 Samuel G. Courtney 1866-69 Edwards Pierrepont 1869-70 Noah Davis 1870-72 George Bliss, Jr. 1873-77 Stewart L. Woodford 1877-83 Elihu Root 1883-85 William Dorsheimer 1885-86 Stephen A. Walker 1886-89 Edward Mitchell 1889-94 Henry C. Platt 1894 Wallace Macfarlane 1894-98 Henry L. Burnett 1898-1906 Henry L. Stimson 1906-09 Henry A. Wise 1909-13 H. Snowden Marshall 1913-17 Francis G. Caffey 1917-21 William Hayward 1921-25 Emory R. Buckner 1925-27 Charles H. Tuttle 1927-30 Robert E. Manley 1930-31 George Z. Medalie 1931-33 Thomas E. Dewey 1933 Martin Conboy 1933-35 Francis W. H. Adams 1935 Lamar Hardy 1935-38 Gregory F. Noonan 1938-39 John T. Cahill 1939-41 Mathias F. Correa 1941-43 Howard F. Corcoran 1943 James B. M. McNally 1943-44 John F. X. McGohey 1944-49 Irving H. Saypol 1949-51 Miles J. Lane 1951-53 J. Edward Lumbard 1953-55 Lloyd F. MacMahon 1955 Paul W. Williams 1955-58 Arthur H. Christy 1958-59 S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr. 1959-61 Morton S. Robson 1961 Robert M. Morgenthau 1961-62 Vincent L. Broderick 1962 Robert M. Morgenthau 1962-70 Whitney North Seymour, Jr. 1970-73 Paul J. Curran 1973-75 Thomas J. Cahill 1975-76 Robert B. Fiske, Jr. 1976-80 William M. Tendy 1980 John S. Martin, Jr. 1980-83 Rudolph W. Giuliani 1983-89 Benito Romano 1989 Otto G. Obermaier 1989-93 Roger S. Hayes 1993 Mary Jo White 1993-2002 James Comey 2002-03 David N. Kelley 2003-05 Michael J. Garcia 2005-08 Lev L. Dassin 2008-09 Preet Bharara 2009-17 Joon Kim 2017-18 Geoffrey Berman 2018-20 Audrey Strauss 2020-

Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)

1848 Dec 22: Charles McVean, died in office.

1866 Apr 12: Daniel S. Dickinson, died in office.

U.S. District Attorneys for New York, 1900-98 (may be incomplete!)
Charles H. Brown 1900-06 Lyman M. Bass 1906-09 John Lord O'Brian 1909-14 Stephen T. Lockwood 1915-22 William J. Donovan 1922-24 Thomas Penney, Jr. 1924-25 Richard H. Templeton 1925-34 George L. Grobe 1934-53 John O. Henderson 1953-59 Neil A. Farmelo 1959-61 John T. Curtin 1961-67 Thomas A. Kennelly 1968 Andrew F. Phelan 1968-69 Edgar C. NeMoyer 1969 Kenneth H. Schroeder, Jr. 1969-72 John T. Elfvin 1972-75 Richard J. Arcara 1975-81 Roger P. Williams 1981-82 Salvatore R. Martoche 1982-86 Roger P. Williams 1986-88 Dennis C. Vacco 1988-93 Patrick H. NeMoyer 1993-97 Denise E. O'Donnell 1997-98

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.

The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.

The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.

Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.

The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html.

Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.

If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.

Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.

Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.

	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usatty.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.