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United States Attorney General

head of the United States Department of Justice

8 dated entries naming United States Attorney General, drawn from 8 separate years between 1772 CE and 1946 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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18th century

  • 1772November 8 – William Wirt, 9th United States Attorney General (d. 1834)source
  • 1780August 29 – Richard Rush, United States Attorney General under James Madison, United States Secretary of the Treasury under President John Quincy Adams (d. 1859)source

19th century

  • 1834February 18 – William Wirt, 9th United States Attorney General (b. 1772)source
  • 1853December 23 – William Henry Moody, 35th United States Secretary of the Navy, 45th United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1917)source
  • 1859July 30 – Richard Rush, United States Attorney General under James Madison, United States Secretary of the Treasury under President John Quincy Adams (b. 1780)source

20th century

  • 1917July 2 – William Henry Moody, 35th United States Secretary of the Navy, 45th United States Attorney General, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1853)source
  • 1919March 5 – A. Mitchell Palmer becomes United States Attorney General, through recess appointment.source
  • 1946December 24 – Jeff Sessions, American politician, United States Attorney Generalsource

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