List of Colorado Attorneys General
Attorney General of the Territory of Colorado | Political party | Order | Term of Service |
James E. Dalliba | Republican | 1st | 1861-1862 |
Samuel E. Brown | Republican | 2nd | 1862-1865 |
George W. Chamberlain | Republican | 3rd | 1865-1869 |
Henry C. Thatcher | Republican | 4th | 1869-1873 |
From 1873 to 1877 the Attorney General position was filled by the U.S. Attorney due to lack of funding by the territorial government. In 1876 Colorado was admitted to the Union as a State. | |||
Attorney General of the State of Colorado | Political party | Order | Term of Service |
A.J. Sampson | Republican | 1st | 1877-1878 |
Charles W. Wright | Republican | 2nd | 1879-1880 |
Charles H. Toll | Republican | 3rd | 1881-1882 |
David F. Urmy | Republican | 4th | 1883-1884 |
Theodore H. Thomas | Republican | 5th | 1885-1886 |
Alvin Marsh | Republican | 6th | 1887-1888 |
Samuel W. Jones | Republican | 7th | 1889-1890 |
Joseph H. Maupin | Democrat | 8th | 1891-1892 |
Eugene Engley | Democrat | 9th | 1893-1894 |
Byron L. Carr | Republican | 10th | 1895-1898 |
David M. Campbell | Republican | 11th | 1899-1900 |
Charles C. Post | Republican | 12th | 1901-1902 |
Nathan C. Miller | Republican | 13th | 1903-1906 |
William H. Dickson | Republican | 14th | 1907-1908 |
John T. Barnett | Democrat | 15th | 1909-1910 |
Benjamin Griffith | Republican | 16th | 1911-1912 |
Fred Farrar | Democrat | 17th | 1913-1916 |
Leslie E. Hubbard | Democrat | 18th | 1917-1918 |
Victor E. Keyes | Republican | 19th | 1919-1922 |
Russel W. Fleming | Democrat | 20th | 1923-1924 |
Wayne C. Williams | Democrat | 21st | 1924-1925 |
William Boatright | Republican | 22nd | 1925-1928 |
Robert E. Winbourn | Republican | 23rd | 1929-1930 |
John S. Underwood | Republican | 24th | 1930-1931 |
Clarence L. Ireland | Republican | 25th | 1931-1932 |
Paul P. Prosser | Democrat | 26th | 1933-1936 |
Byron G. Rogers | Democrat | 27th | 1936-1940 |
Gail L. Ireland | Republican | 28th | 1941-1944 |
H. Lawrence Hinkley | Republican | 29th | 1945-1948 |
John W. Metzger | Democrat | 30th | 1949-1950 |
Duke W. Dunbar | Republican | 31st | 1951-1973 |
John P. Moore | Republican | 32nd | 1973-1974 |
J.D. Mac Farlane | Democrat | 33rd | 1975-1982 |
L. Duane Woodard | Republican/Democrat | 34th | 1983-1991 |
Gale A. Norton | Republican | 35th | 1991-1999 |
Ken Salazar | Democrat | 36th | 1999-2005 |
John W. Suthers | Republican | 37th | 2005- |
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