Colorado Attorney General

The Attorney General of the State of Colorado is the chief legal officer for the state of Colorado, and the head of the Colorado Department of Law. The incumbent Colorado Attorney General is John Suthers, who was re-elected on November 2, 2010, to another four-year term beginning on January 11, 2011.

The Department of Law has six sections: Appellate, Natural Resources and Environmental, Consumer Protection, State Services, Civil Litigation and Employment Law, Criminal Justice, and Business & Licensing.[1]

List of Colorado Attorneys General

Name Town & Political party Term of Service
James E. Dalliba Republican 1861-1862
Samuel E. Brown Republican 1862-1865
George W. Chamberlain Republican 1865-1869
Henry C. Thatcher Republican 1869-1873
Attorney General position was filled by the U.S. Attorney due to lack of funding by the territorial government (none) 1873-1877
A.J. Sampson Republican 1877-1878
Charles W. Wright Republican 1879-1880
Charles H. Toll Republican 1881-1882
David F. Urmy Republican 1883-1884
Theodore H. Thomas Republican 1885-1886
Alvin Marsh Republican 1887-1888
Samuel W. Jones Republican 1889-1890
Joseph H. Maupin Democrat 1891-1892
Eugene Engley Democrat 1893-1894
Byron L. Carr Republican 1895-1898
David M. Campbell Republican 1899-1900
Charles C. Post Republican 1901-1902
Nathan C. Miller Republican 1903-1906
William H. Dickson Republican 1907-1908
John T. Barnett Democrat 1909-1910
Benjamin Griffith Republican 1911-1912
Fred Farrar Democrat 1913-1916
Leslie E. Hubbard Democrat 1917-1918
Victor E. Keyes Republican 1919-1922
Russel W. Fleming Democrat 1923-1924
Wayne C. Williams Democrat 1924-1925
William Boatright Republican 1925-1928
Robert E. Winbourn Republican 1929-1930
John S. Underwood Republican 1930-1931
Clarence L. Ireland Republican 1931-1932
Paul P. Prosser Democrat 1933-1936
Byron G. Rogers Democrat 1936-1940
Gail L. Ireland Republican 1941-1944
H. Lawrence Hinkley Republican 1945-1948
John W. Metzger Democrat 1949-1950
Duke W. Dunbar Republican 1951-1973
John P. Moore Republican 1973-1974
J.D. Mac Farlane Democrat 1975-1982
L. Duane Woodard Republican/Democrat 1983-1991
Gale A. Norton Republican 1991-1999
Ken Salazar Democrat 1999-2005
John W. Suthers Republican 2005-

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