List of New York State Attorneys General
Attorney General | Tenure | Party | Remarks |
Egbert Benson | May 8, 1777 - May 14, 1788 | ||
Richard Varick | May 14, 1788 - September 29, 1789 | Federalist | |
Aaron Burr | September 29, 1789 - November 8, 1791 | Dem.-Rep. | |
Morgan Lewis | November 8, 1791 - December 24, 1792 | Dem.-Rep. | |
Nathaniel Lawrence | December 24, 1792 - November 13, 1795 | Dem.-Rep. | |
Josiah Ogden Hoffman | November 13, 1795 - February 3, 1802 | Federalist | |
Ambrose Spencer | February 3, 1802 - February 3, 1804 | Dem.-Rep. | |
John Woodworth | February 3, 1804 - March 18, 1808 | Dem.-Rep. | |
Matthias B. Hildreth | March 18, 1808 - February 2, 1810 | Dem.-Rep. | |
Abraham Van Vechten | February 2, 1810 - February 1, 1811 | Federalist | |
Matthias B. Hildreth | February 1, 1811 - July 11, 1812 | Dem.-Rep. | died in office |
Thomas Addis Emmet | August 12, 1812 - February 13, 1813 | Dem.-Rep. | |
Abraham Van Vechten | February 13, 1813 - February 17, 1815 | Federalist | |
Martin Van Buren | February 17, 1815 - July 8, 1819 | Dem.-Rep. | |
Thomas Jackson Oakley | July 8, 1819 - February 12, 1821 | Federalist | |
Samuel A. Talcott | February 12, 1821 - January 27, 1829 | Dem.-Rep. | first appointed, in 1823 elected by State Legislature, resigned shortly before the end of his second term |
Greene C. Bronson | January 27, 1829 - January 12, 1836 | Democrat | elected a justice of the State Supreme Court during his third term |
Samuel Beardsley | January 12, 1836 - February 4, 1839 | Democrat | |
Willis Hall | February 4, 1839 - February 7, 1842 | Whig | |
George P. Barker | February 7, 1842 - February 3, 1845 | Democrat | |
John Van Buren | February 3, 1845 - December 31, 1847 | Democrat | legislated out of office by Constitution of 1846 |
Ambrose L. Jordan | January 1, 1848 - December 31, 1849 | Whig | first Attorney General elected by general ballot |
Levi S. Chatfield | January 1, 1850 - November 23, 1853 | Democrat | resigned shortly before the end of his second term |
Gardner Stow | December 8, 1853 - December 31, 1853 | appointed to fill unexpired term | |
Ogden Hoffman | January 1, 1854 - December 31, 1855 | Whig | |
Stephen B. Cushing | January 1, 1856 - December 31, 1857 | American | |
Lyman Tremain | January 1, 1858 - December 31, 1859 | Democrat | |
Charles G. Myers | January 1, 1860 - December 31, 1861 | Republican | |
Daniel S. Dickinson | January 1, 1862 - December 31, 1863 | Union | |
John Cochrane | January 1, 1864 - December 31, 1865 | Union | |
John H. Martindale | January 1, 1866 - December 31, 1867 | Republican | |
Marshall B. Champlain | January 1, 1868 - December 31, 1871 | Democrat | two terms |
Francis C. Barlow | January 1, 1872 - December 31, 1873 | Republican | |
Daniel Pratt | January 1, 1874 - December 31, 1875 | Democrat | |
Charles S. Fairchild | January 1, 1876 - December 31, 1877 | Democrat | |
Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. | January 1, 1878 - December 31, 1879 | Democrat | |
Hamilton Ward, Sr. | January 1, 1880 - December 31, 1881 | Republican | |
Leslie W. Russell | January 1, 1882 - December 31, 1883 | Republican | |
Denis O'Brien | January 1, 1884 - December 31, 1887 | Democrat | two terms |
Charles F. Tabor | January 1, 1888 - December 31, 1891 | Democrat | two terms |
Simon W. Rosendale | January 1, 1892 - December 31, 1893 | Democrat | |
Theodore E. Hancock | January 1, 1894 - December 31, 1898 | Republican | two terms (1894–1895; 1896–1898) |
John C. Davies | January 1, 1899 - December 31, 1902 | Republican | two terms |
John Cunneen | January 1, 1903 - December 31, 1904 | Democrat | |
Julius M. Mayer | January 1, 1905 - December 31, 1906 | Republican | |
William S. Jackson | January 1, 1907 - December 31, 1908 | Democrat | |
Edward R. O'Malley | January 1, 1909 - December 31, 1910 | Republican | |
Thomas Carmody | January 1, 1911 - September 2, 1914 | Democrat | resigned shortly before the end of his second term |
James A. Parsons | September 2, 1914 - December 31, 1914 | Democrat | appointed to fill unexpired term |
Egburt E. Woodbury | January 1, 1915 - April 19, 1917 | Republican | resigned during his second term |
Merton E. Lewis | April 19, 1917 - December 31, 1918 | Republican | as First Deputy AG acted until being elected by the State Legislature on April 25 to fill unexpired first half of term, then re-elected in special election (Nov. 1917) for the other half (1918) |
Charles D. Newton | January 1, 1919 - December 31, 1922 | Republican | two terms |
Carl Sherman | January 1, 1923 - December 31, 1924 | Democrat | |
Albert Ottinger | January 1, 1925 - December 31, 1928 | Republican | two terms |
Hamilton Ward, Jr. | January 1, 1929 - December 31, 1930 | Republican | son of Hamilton Ward, Sr. (AG 1880-1881) |
John J. Bennett, Jr. | January 1, 1931 - December 31, 1942 | Democrat | five terms |
Nathaniel L. Goldstein | January 1, 1943 - December 31, 1954 | Republican | three terms |
Jacob K. Javits | January 1, 1955 - January 9, 1957 | Republican | resigned having been elected U.S. Senator |
Louis J. Lefkowitz | January 9, 1957 - December 31, 1978 | Republican | elected by the State Legislature to fill unexpired term, then re-elected to five more terms, longest-serving Attorney General (8 days short of 22 years) |
Robert Abrams | January 1, 1979 - December 31, 1993 | Democrat | resigned a year before the end of his fourth term |
G. Oliver Koppell | January 1, 1994 - December 31, 1994 | Democrat | elected by the State Legislature to fill unexpired term |
Dennis Vacco | January 1, 1995 - December 31, 1998 | Republican | |
Eliot Spitzer | January 1, 1999 - December 31, 2006 | Democrat | two terms, then elected Governor |
Andrew Cuomo | January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2010 | Democrat | one term, then elected Governor |
Eric Schneiderman | January 1, 2011- | Democrat |
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