The Political Graveyard: Pennsylvania: State Attorneys General

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Pennsylvania: State Attorneys General

Pennsylvania State Attorneys General, 1777-2011 (May be incomplete!)
Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant 1777-80 William Bradford 1780-91 Jared Ingersoll 1791-1800 Joseph B. McKean 1800-08 Mahlon Dickerson 1808-09 Walter Franklin 1809-11 Richard Rush 1811 Jared Ingersoll 1811-16 Amos Ellmaker 1816-19 Thomas Sergeant 1819-20 Thomas Elder 1820-23 Frederick Smith 1823-28 Calvin Blythe 1828 Amos Ellmaker 1828-29 Philip S. Markley 1829-30 Samuel Douglass 1830-33 Ellis Lewis 1833 George M. Dallas 1833-35 James Todd 1835-38 William B. Reed 1838-39 Ovid F. Johnson 1839-45 John K. Kane 1845-46 John M. Read 1846 Benjamin Champneys 1846-48 James Cooper 1848 Cornelius Darragh 1849-51 Thomas E. Franklin 1851-52 James Campbell 1852-53 Francis W. Hughes 1853-55 Thomas E. Franklin 1855-58 John C. Knox 1858-61 Samuel A. Purviance 1861 William M. Meredith 1861-67 Benjamin Harris Brewster 1867-69 F. Carroll Brewster 1869-73 Samuel E. Dimmick 1873-75 George Lear 1875-79 Henry W. Palmer 1879-83 Lewis C. Cassidy 1883-87 William S. Kirkpatrick 1887-91 W. U. Hensel 1891-95 Henry C. McCormick 1895-99 John P. Elkin 1899-1903 Hampton L. Carson 1903-07 Moses Hampton Todd 1907 John C. Bell 1911-15 Francis S. Brown 1915-19 William I. Schaffer 1919-21 George E. Alter 1920-23 George W. Woodruff 1923-27 Thomas J. Baldrige 1927-29 Cyrus E. Woods 1929-30 William A. Schnader 1930-35 Charles J. Margiotti 1935-38 Guy K. Bard 1938-39 Claude T. Reno 1939 James H. Duff 1943-47 Thomas McKeen Chidsey 1947-50 Robert E. Woodside 1951-53 Herbert B. Cohen 1955-57 Walter E. Alessandroni 1963-66 William C. Sennett 1967-70 Fred Speaker 1970-71 J. Shane Creamer 1971-73 Harvey Bartle III 1980-81 Tom Corbett 1995-97 Tom Corbett 2005-11

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1848 Dec 30: James Cooper, resigned.

1853 Mar 8: James Campbell, resigned.

1869 Oct 25: Benjamin Harris Brewster, resigned.

1875: Samuel E. Dimmick, died in office.

1939 Jan 18: Claude T. Reno, appointed.

1953 Sep 30: Robert E. Woodside, resigned.

1980 Nov 4: LeRoy S. Zimmerman (Rep), elected; Michael A. O'Pake (Dem), defeated; Richard D. Fuerle (Libertarian), defeated.

1984: Allen E. Ertel, defeated.

1988 Nov 8: Ernie D. Preate, Jr. (Rep), elected.

1992 Nov 3: Ernie D. Preate, Jr. (Rep), elected.

1996 Apr 23: D. Michael Fisher (Rep), nominated.

1996 Nov 5: D. Michael Fisher (Rep), elected.

2000 Nov 7: D. Michael Fisher (Rep), elected.

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