- 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. 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- References
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