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United States Attorney General

head of the United States Department of Justice

6 dated entries naming United States Attorney General, drawn from 6 separate years between 1772 CE and 1968 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.

Also written as Attorney General of the United States, U.S. Attorney General, US Attorney General, United States Attorney-General in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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18th century

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

20th century

  • 1919March 5 – A. Mitchell Palmer becomes United States Attorney General, through recess appointment.source
  • 1925November 20 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician, Attorney General of the United States and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate (died 1968)source
  • 1946December 24 – Jeff Sessions, American politician, United States Attorney Generalsource
  • 1968June 6 – Robert F. Kennedy, American lawyer, politician (United States Senator, U.S. Attorney General) and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate (born 1925)source

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