Colorado Attorney General
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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, a principal department of the Colorado state government. The incumbent Colorado Attorney General is Cynthia Coffman, who was elected in November, 2014, to a four-year term that began on January 13, 2015.
The Department of Law has seven sections: Appellate, Natural Resources and Environmental, Consumer Protection, State Services, Civil Litigation and Employment Law, Criminal Justice, Revenue & Utilities, and Business & Licensing.[1]
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 | People's Party | 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 | 2005–2015 |
| Cynthia Coffman | Republican | 38th | 2015–present |
References
External links
- Colorado Attorney General official website
- Colorado Attorney General articles at Legal Newsline Legal Journal
- Colorado Attorney General articles at ABA Journal
- News and Commentary at FindLaw
- Colorado Revised Statutes at Law.Justia.com
- U.S. Supreme Court Opinions - "Cases with title containing: State of Colorado" at FindLaw
- Colorado Bar Association
- Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman profile at National Association of Attorneys General
- Press releases by year at Colorado Attorney General's office
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