- John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroft was the 79th Attorney General of the United States. He served during the first term of President George W. Bush from 2001 until 2005. Ashcroft was previously the Governor of Missouri (1985–1993) and a U.S. Senator from Missouri (1995–2001). He is the author of several books, including: "On My Honor: The Beliefs that Shape My Life", "Lessons from a Father to his Son," and most recently, … - Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. While Bush was Governor of Texas, Gonzales had served as his general counsel (1994-1997). Subsequently he served as Secretary of State of Texas (1997-1999) and then on the Texas Supreme Court (1999-2000). From 2001 to 2005, Gonzales served in the Bush Administration as White House Counsel. - Janet Reno
Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the first female Attorney General of the United States (1993-2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt. - Ramsey Clark
William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) is a lawyer and activist. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as the 66th United States Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He has been known for his continuing advocacy on behalf of civil and human rights political causes. He is also known for his role as defense attorney in the trials of controversial figures, such as defense attorney for Saddam Hussein. - Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. He was one of President Kennedy's most trusted advisors and worked closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His contribution to the African-American Civil Rights Movement is sometimes considered his greatest legacy. - Michael B. Mukasey
Michael Mukasey , who prepped for the job in the federal judiciary while Gonzales was the president's lapdog, is a rocket scientist by comparison. After hoodwinking the Senate into confirming him because he promised that he'd have to look into this torture stuff, Mukasey has gone to great lengths to defend its use while approving an "independent" investigation into the darkest of all the dark aspects of the Bush administration that is anything but. - Edwin Meese
Mr. Meese served as attorney general of the United States from 1985 to 1988, during which time he championed what he termed the "jurisprudence of original intent." Calling for fidelity to the intentions of the Constitution's framers and ratifiers, he opposed the judicial activism of the modern Supreme Court and helped bring about the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court justices and hundreds of federal court judges pledged to the philosophy of judicial restraint. - John N. Mitchell
John Newton Mitchell (September 15, 1913 - November 9, 1988) was the first United States Attorney General ever to be convicted of illegal activities and imprisoned. He also served as campaign director for the Committee to Re-elect the President, which engineered the Watergate first break-in and employed Watergate burglar James W. McCord, Jr. in a "security" capacity. Mitchell was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up on Long Island in New York. - Dick Thornburgh
Richard L. "Dick" Thornburgh (born July 16, 1932) is a lawyer and Republican politician who served as the Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987, and then as the U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991. - Kyle Sampson
D. Kyle Sampson (born in Cedar City, Utah) was the Chief of Staff and Counselor of United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. He resigned on March 12 2007, amid the growing controversy surrounding the firing of eight United States Attorneys in 2006. - William French Smith
William French Smith (August 26, 1917-October 29, 1990) was an American lawyer and the 74th Attorney General of the United States. Born in Wilton, New Hampshire, he received his A.B. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1939, and his LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1942. From 1942 to 1946, Mr. Smith served in the United States Naval Reserve, reaching the rank of lieutenant. In 1946 he joined the law firm of Gibson, … - Monica Goodling
Monica Marie Goodling (born August 6, 1973) is a former United States government lawyer and political appointee in the George W. Bush administration who came to prominence in 2007 in the midst of a political controversy surrounding the firings of several U.S. attorneys. She was the Director of Public Affairs for the United States Department of Justice, serving under Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzales. - Patrick Fitzgerald
Patrick J. Fitzgerald (born December 22, 1960) is an American attorney and the current United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. On December 30 2003, after then-Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the CIA leak grand jury investigation of the Plame affair due to conflicts of interest, Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, acting as Attorney General in Ashcroft's place, … - Edmund Randolph
Edmund Jenings Randolph (August 10, 1753 - September 12, 1813) was an American attorney, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General. - Frank Murphy
William Francis (Frank) Murphy (April 13, 1890 - July 19, 1949) was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as Mayor of Detroit, Governor of Michigan, the last Governor-General of the Philippines and the first High Commissioner of the Philippines, United States Attorney General, and United States Supreme Court Justice. - Griffin Bell
Griffin Boyette Bell (born October 31, 1918) is an American lawyer and former United States Attorney General. Born in Americus, Georgia, he attended public schools and Georgia Southwestern College and then the Walter F. George School of Law of Mercer University. He practiced law at King & Spalding in Georgia from 1948 to 1961, and rejoined the firm just prior to and after his service as Attorney General during the Carter Administration. He is still affiliated with the firm. - Charles Joseph Bonaparte
Charles Joseph Bonaparte was a grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte (the youngest brother of the French emperor Napoleon I), and a member of the United States Cabinet. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte (1805-1870) and Susan May Williams (1812-1881), from whom the American line of the Bonaparte family descended. After graduating from Harvard University and Harvard Law School, where he would later be appointed a university overseer, … - Robert Bork
Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927) is a conservative American legal scholar who advocates the judicial philosophy of originalism. Bork formerly served as Solicitor General, acting Attorney General, and circuit judge for United States Court of Appeals. In 1987, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan, but he was not confirmed by the Senate. Currently, Bork is a lawyer, law professor, best-selling author, … - Harlan Fiske Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11 1872 - April 22 1946) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as the dean of Columbia Law School, Attorney General of the United States, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and later Chief Justice of the United States. - Nicholas Katzenbach
Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach (born January 17, 1922) is an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. - Francis Biddle
Francis Beverley Biddle was an American lawyer and judge who is most famous as the primary American judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II. Biddle was one of four sons of Algernon Biddle, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also the great-great-grandson of Edmund Randolph, and a half second cousin four times removed of James Madison. He was born in Paris, while his family was living abroad. - William Bradford
William Bradford was a lawyer and judge from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the second United States Attorney General in 1794-1795. He was the son of the printer William Bradford and was born in Philadelphia. He began his education at the Academy of Philadelphia, then attended Princeton University where he formed a life-long friendship with a younger student, James Madison, before graduating in 1772. When he returned to Philadelphia he read law with Edward Shippen. - William Wirt
William Wirt (November 8, 1772 - February 18, 1834) was an American author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attorney General into one of influence. - William Barr
William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950 in New York City) is an American attorney who served as the 77th Attorney General of the United States. He received his bachelor's degree in government and a master's degree in government and Chinese studies, in 1971 and 1973 respectively, from Columbia University. He received his J.D. with highest honors in 1977 from The George Washington University Law School. From 1973 to 1977, he was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency. - Tom C. Clark
Tom Campbell Clark was United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1949-1967). Clark was born in Dallas, Texas, to Virginia Maxey Falls and William Henry Clark. He served as a Texas National Guard infantryman in 1918; afterward he studied law, receiving his law degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1922 and setting up practice in his home town of Dallas from 1922 to 1937. - Robert H. Jackson
Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892-October 9, 1954) was United States Attorney General (1940-1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941-1954). He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. - Elliot Richardson
Elliot Lee Richardson (July 20, 1920 - December 31, 1999) was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal, having refused an order from Nixon to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. As of 2006, Richardson is the only individual to serve in four Cabinet-level positions within the United States government: Secretary of Health, Education, … - Charles Lee
Charles Lee (1758 - June 24 1815) was an American lawyer from Virginia. He served as United States Attorney General from 1795 until 1801. Charles was born to Henry (1729-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee on his father's plantation of "Leesylvania" in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was the third of eleven children and the elder brother of General Henry 'Light Horse Harry' Lee. Another brother was Congressman Richard Bland Lee. A third cousin was Zachary Taylor. - Roger B. Taney
Roger Brooke Taney (pronounced "Tawney") (March 17, 1777 - October 12, 1864) was the twelfth United States Attorney General and the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, from 1836 until his death in 1864, and the first Roman Catholic to hold that office. Taney died during the final months of the American Civil War, on the same day that his home state of Maryland abolished slavery. - Robert Smith
Robert Smith (November 3, 1757 - November 26, 1842) was the second United States Secretary of the Navy from 1801 to 1809 and the sixth United States Secretary of State from 1809 to 1811. He was the brother of Senator Samuel Smith. Smith was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolutionary War, he served in the Continental Army and participated in the Battle of Brandywine. He graduated from Princeton in 1781 and began to practice law in Maryland. - William P. Rogers
William Pierce Rogers (June 23, 1913 - January 2, 2001) was an American politician, who served as a Cabinet officer in the administrations of two U.S. Presidents in the third quarter of the 20th century. Rogers was born June 23, 1913, in Norfolk, New York. He was raised, from early in his teens, following the death of his mother, by his grandparents, in Canton, New York. After education at Colgate University and Cornell University Law School, he passed the bar in 1937. - Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - Lyndon Larouche
Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr. (born September 8, 1922 in Rochester, New Hampshire) is an American political activist and founder of several political organizations in the United States and elsewhere, jointly referred to as the LaRouche movement. He is known as a perennial candidate for President of the United States, having run in eight elections since 1976, once as a U.S. Labor Party candidate and seven times as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. - Alphonso Taft
Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 - May 21, 1891) was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. Born in Townshend, Vermont, he graduated from Yale College in 1833, where he also was a tutor. At Yale, he and his classmate William Huntington Russell cofounded Skull and Bones, the preeminent undergraduate club. He subsequently studied law at the Yale Law School, … - Edward Bates
Edward Bates (September 4, 1793 - March 25, 1869) was a U.S. lawyer and statesman. He served as United States Attorney General under Abraham Lincoln from 1861 to 1864. He was also the brother of both Frederick Bates and James Woodson Bates. Born in Belmont, Virginia, he attended school in Maryland and served in the War of 1812. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri Territory in 1814 and there studied law, earning admittance to the bar in 1817, … - J. Howard McGrath
James Howard McGrath was an American politician and attorney from the U.S. state of Rhode Island. McGrath, a Democrat, served as District Attorney before becoming Governor, U.S. Senator, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and U.S. Attorney General McGrath was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He graduated from La Salle Academy, Providence in 1922, from Providence College in 1926, and from Boston University in 1929. - William B. Saxbe
William Bart Saxbe (born June 24, 1916) was an American politician of the Republican Party, who served as a U.S. Senator from Ohio and as U.S. Attorney General under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. Saxbe was born in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, and received a bachelor's degree from the Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio), Class of 1940, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. He served in the military during World War II, … - Bradley Schlozman
Bradley J. Schlozman (born February 6, 1971) was the head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, under Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, until he served a year as interim US Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. He was appointed by Alberto Gonzales and assumed office on March 23, 2006, … - Alexander Mitchell Palmer
Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 - May 11, 1936) was the Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. He was nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and he directed the controversial Palmer Raids. - Edward H. Levi
Edward Hirsch Levi was an American academic leader, scholar, and statesman who served as United States Attorney General.
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