Jon Bruning

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Jon Bruning (b. April 30, 1969, Lincoln) is the current attorney general of the state of Nebraska, United States, elected in 2002 and reelected in 2006. He is a fifth-generation Nebraskan.

A Republican, Bruning is the youngest Attorney General in Nebraska's history. He is chairman of the Nebraska Crime Commission and serves on the Nebraska Board of Pardons.

Bruning was elected to the Nebraska Legislature in 1996 and 2000 and served six years as a state senator. Mr. Bruning may run for U.S. Senate in 2008 if Chuck Hagel retires.

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Jon Bruning is married; he and his wife Deonne have two children, Lauren and Jack.


Preceded by
Don Stenberg
Nebraska Attorney General
2003 – present
Incumbent
Preceded by
Michael Avery
Nebraska State Senator - District 3
1997-2002
Succeeded by
Ray Mossey

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State Attorneys General in the United States
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AL: Troy King
AR: Dustin McDaniel
AZ: Terry Goddard
CA: Jerry Brown
CO: John Suthers
CT: Richard Blumenthal
DE: Beau Biden
FL: Bill McCollum
GA: Thurbert Baker

HI: Mark J. Bennett
IA: Tom Miller
ID: Lawrence Wasden
IL: Lisa Madigan
IN: Steve Carter
KS: Paul Morrison
KY: Greg Stumbo
LA: Charles Foti
MA: Martha Coakley
MD: Doug Gansler

ME: G. Steven Rowe
MI: Mike Cox
MN: Lori Swanson
MO: Jay Nixon
MS: Jim Hood
MT: Mike McGrath
NC: Roy A. Cooper
ND: Wayne Stenehjem
NE: Jon Bruning
NH: Kelly Ayotte

NJ: Stuart Rabner
NM: Gary King
NV: Catherine Cortez Masto
NY: Andrew Cuomo
OH: Marc Dann
OK: Drew Edmondson
OR: Hardy Myers
PA: Tom Corbett
RI: Patrick C. Lynch
SC: Henry McMaster

SD: Larry Long
TN: Robert E. Cooper, Jr.
TX: Greg Abbott
UT: Mark Shurtleff
VA: Bob McDonnell
VT: William Sorrell
WA: Rob McKenna
WI: J. B. Van Hollen
WV: Darrell McGraw
WY: Patrick Crank


Other members of the National Association of Attorneys General
AS: Malaetasi Togafau • GU: Alicia Limtiaco • NMI: Matt Gregory • PR: Roberto Sánchez Ramos • VI: Kerry Drue
DC: Linda SingerUnited States: Alberto Gonzales (honorary member)