U.S. Attorneys General Quiz

There have been 83 different Attorneys General in the history of the United States. How many can you name?

Excluding the acting Attorneys General

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Term	Attorney General
2019-	William Barr
2017-2018	Jeff Sessions
2015-2017	Loretta Lynch
2009-2015	Eric Holder
2007-2009	Michael Mukasey
2005-2007	Alberto Gonzales
2001-2005	John Ashcroft
1993-2001	Janet Reno
1991-1993	William Barr
1988-1991	Dick Thornburgh
1985-1988	Edwin Meese
1981-1985	William French Smith
1979-1981	Benjamin Civiletti
1977-1979	Griffin Bell
1975-1977	Edward H. Levi
1974-1975	William B. Saxbe
1973	Elliot Richardson
1972-1973	Richard Kleindienst
1969-1972	John N. Mitchell
1967-1969	Ramsey Clark
1965-1966	Nicholas Katzenbach
1961-1964	Robert F. Kennedy
1957-1961	William P. Rogers
1953-1957	Herbert Brownell Jr.
1952-1953	James P. McGranery
1949-1952	J. Howard McGrath
1945-1949	Tom C. Clark
1941-1945	Francis Biddle
1940-1941	Robert H. Jackson

Term	Attorney General
1939-1940	Frank Murphy
1933-1939	Homer Stille Cummings
1929-1933	William D. Mitchell
1925-1929	John G. Sargent
1924-1925	Harlan F. Stone
1921-1924	Harry M. Daugherty
1919-1921	A. Mitchell Palmer
1914-1919	Thomas Watt Gregory
1913-1914	James C. McReynolds
1909-1913	George W. Wickersham
1906-1909	Charles Bonaparte
1904-1906	William Henry Moody
1901-1904	Philander C. Knox
1898-1901	John W. Griggs
1897-1898	Joseph McKenna
1895-1897	Judson Harmon
1893-1895	Richard Olney
1889-1893	William H. H. Miller
1885-1889	Augustus Garland
1881-1885	Benjamin H. Brewster
1881	Wayne MacVeagh
1877-1881	Charles Devens
1876-1877	Alphonso Taft
1875-1876	Edwards Pierrepont
1871-1875	George Henry Williams
1870-1871	Amos T. Akerman
1869-1870	Ebenezer R. Hoar
1868-1869	William M. Evarts

Term	Attorney General
1866-1868	Henry Stanbery
1864-1866	James Speed
1861-1864	Edward Bates
1860-1961	Edwin Stanton
1857-1860	Jeremiah S. Black
1853-1857	Caleb Cushing
1850-1853	John J. Crittenden
1849-1850	Reverdy Johnson
1848-1849	Isaac Toucey
1846-1848	Nathan Clifford
1845-1846	John Y. Mason
1843-1845	John Nelson
1841-1843	Hugh S. Legaré
1841	John J. Crittenden
1840-1841	Henry D. Gilpin
1838-1840	Felix Grundy
1833-1838	Benjamin Franklin Butler
1831-1833	Roger B. Taney
1829-1831	John Macpherson Berrien
1817-1829	William Wirt
1814-1817	Richard Rush
1811-1814	William Pinkney
1807-1811	Caesar Augustus Rodney
1805-1806	John Breckinridge
1801-1805	Levi Lincoln Sr.
1795-1801	Charles Lee
1794-1795	William Bradford
1789-1794	Edmund Randolph

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