Attorney General of Georgia

The attorney general of Georgia is the chief law enforcement officer and lawyer for the U.S. state of Georgia. The attorney general is elected to a four-year term at the same time as elections are held for Governor and other offices.

The current attorney general is Sam Olens.

Attorneys General, 1776–present

Pre-Statehood

#	Name	Term of Service
1	Williams Stephens	1776–1780
2	John Milledge	1780–1781
3	Samuel Stirk	1781–1785
4	Nathaniel Pendleton	1785–1786
5	Matthew McAllister	1787–1788

Post-Statehood

#	Name	Term of Service	Political Party
1	Matthew McAllister	1788–1791
2	George Walker	1792–1795
3	David Brydie Mitchell	1796–1806
4	Robert Walker	1807–1808
5	John Hamil	1808
6	John Forsyth	1808–1811
7	Alexander M. Allen	1811
8	Richard Henry Wilde	1811–1813
9	Alexander M. Allen	1813–1816
10	Roger Lawson Gamble	1816–1822
11	Thomas F. Wells	1822–1827
12	George W. Crawford	1827–1831
13	Charles Jones Jenkins	1831–1834
14	Ebenezer Starnes	1834–1840
15	James Gardner	1840–1843
16	John J. R. Flournoy	1843–1847
17	Alpheus Colvard	1847–1851
18	John Troup Shewmake	1851–1855
19	William R. McLaws	1855–1859
20	Alpheus M. Rogers	1859–1861
21	Winder P. Johnson	1861
21	William Watts Montgomery	1861–1865
22	George Thomas Barnes	1865–1866
23	John Philpot Curren Whitehead	1866–1868
24	Henry P. Farrow	1868–1872
25	N. J. Hammond	1872–1877
26	Robert N. Ely	1877–1880
27	Clifford Anderson	1880–1890
28	George N. Lester	1890–1891
29	W. A. Little	1891–1892
30	J. M. Terrell	1892–1902
31	Boykin Wright	1902
32	John C. Hart	1902–1910
33	Hewlett A. Hall	1910–1911
34	Thomas S. Felder	1911–1914
35	Warren Grice	1914–1915
36	Clifford Walker	1915–1920
37	R. A. Denny	1920–1921
38	George M. Napier	1921–1932
39	Lawrence S. Camp	1932
40	M. J. Yeomans	1933–1939
41	Ellis G. Arnall	1939–1943
42	Grady Head	1943–1945
43	Eugene Cook	1945–1965
44	Arthur K. Bolton	1965–1981
45	Michael J. Bowers	1981–1997
46	Thurbert E. Baker	1997–2011
47	Sam Olens	2011–present

External links

• Georgia Attorney General official website
• Georgia Attorney General articles at Legal Newsline Legal Journal
• Georgia Attorney General articles at ABA Journal
• News and Commentary at FindLaw
• Georgia Code at Law.Justia.com
• U.S. Supreme Court Opinions - "Cases with title containing: State of Georgia" at FindLaw
• State Bar of Georgia
• Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens profile at National Association of Attorneys General
• Press releases at Georgia Attorney General's office