- Arizona Attorney General
The Arizona Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the state of
Arizona , in theUnited States . It is an independent, constitutionally mandated office, elected by the people of the state to a four-year term.The Attorney General’s Office is the largest law office in Arizona, with approximately 400 attorneys and 1,000 employees. The Attorney General's Office is divided into the following departments:
*Executive Office
*Solicitor General
*Administrative Operations
*Child and Family Protection
*Civil
*Civil Rights
*Criminal
*Public AdvocacyArizona Attorneys General
Arizona Territory *
Granville Henderson Oury 1869
*J. E. McCaffry ca. 1872
*Clark Churchill 1884 - 1887
*Briggs Goodrich 1887 - 1888
*John A. Rush 1888 - 1889
*Clark Churchill 1889 - 1892
*William Herring 1892 - 1893
*John C. Herndon 1893
*Francis J. Heney 1893 - 1895
*Thomas D. Satterwhite 1895 - 1896
*J. F. Wilson 1896 - 1897
*C. M. Frazier 1898
*Charles F. Ainsworth 1898 - 1903
*Joseph H. Kibbey 1903 - 1905
*E. S. Clark 1905 - 1910
*John B. Wright 1910 - 1912Arizona State
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George Purdy Bullard 1912 - 1915
*Wiley E. Jones 1915 - 1921
*W. J. Galbraith 1921 - 1923
*John W. Murphy 1923 - 1928
*K. Berry Peterson 1928 - 1933
*Arthur T. La Prade 1933 - 1935
*John L. Sullivan 1935 - 1937
*Joe Conway 1937 - 1944
*John L. Sullivan 1944 - 1948
*Evo Anton DeConcini 1948 - 1949, father ofDennis DeConcini
*Fred O. Wilson 1949 - 1953
*Ross F. Jones 1953 - 1955
*Robert Morrison 1955 - 1960
*Wade Church 1960 - 1961
*Robert Pickrell 1961 - 1965
*Darrell F. Smith 1965 - 1968
*Gary K. Nelson 1969 - 1974
*N. Warner Lee 1974 - 1975
*Bruce Babbitt 1975 - 1978, afterwards Governor and thenUS Secretary of the Interior
*John A. (“Jack”) LaSota, Jr. 1978 - 1979
*Bob Corbin 1979 - 1991
*Grant Woods 1991 - 1999
*Janet Napolitano 1999 - 2002, Governor of Arizona since 2002
*Terry Goddard 2002 -ource
* [http://azmemory.lib.az.us/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/agopinions&CISOSORT=descri%7Cf&CISOSTART=1,1] Arizona Attorney General Opinions
External links
* [http://www.azag.gov/] Official website
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