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Brendan Sullivan

He also sued Microsoft, on behalf of nine state attorneys general who were unhappy with the federal government's decision to drop the Microsoft antitrust case.

Ephraim Kingsbury Avery

The lawyers for the prosecution were Rhode Island Attorney General Albert C. Greene and former attorney general Dutee Jerauld Pearce.

James L. Foreman

He was the assistant state attorney general of Illinois from 1953 to 1960, and then a state's attorney of Massac County, Illinois until 1964.

Mike Espy

Espy became Assistant State Attorney General from 1984 to 1985 when he was elected as a Democrat to the 100th Congress in 1986 and then re-elected to three succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1987, until his resignation January 22, 1993, having been appointed Secretary of Agriculture in the Cabinet of President Bill Clinton.

Milton C. Davis

He gained international acclaim when as the Assistant Attorney General for Alabama he partnered with Donald Watkins to research and advocate for a full pardon of Clarence Norris, the last known surviving Scottsboro Boy on the basis on innocence.

Thomas Petrolati

An investigation by the State Attorney General's office found that Petrolati was the main person Richard Vitale, House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi's accountant, relied on during his illegal campaign to lobby for legislation benefiting ticket brokers.


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Anna Pou case

State Attorney General Charles Foti announced the arrests the next day, at a widely televised news conference.

Charles Foti lost the 2007 election for state Attorney General after criticism for prosecuting Pou and the nurses.

Brian Moran

Previous Secretaries of Public Safety have included former Virginia state Attorney General Jerry Kilgore and John W. Marshall, the son of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Caleb Merrill Wright

He was in private practice in Georgetown, Delaware from 1933 to 1955, also serving as a deputy state attorney general of Delaware from 1935 to 1939 and an attorney to the Delaware State Senate from 1938 to 1939, and to the Delaware General Assembly from 1940 to 1941.

Carl Andrews

He also took the opportunity to publicly highlight several high-profile endorsements from leading members of the New York State Democratic Party, e.g. state Comptroller Alan Hevesi, and state Attorney General-and current gubernatorial candidate-Elliot Spitzer.

Charles Newton

Charles D. Newton (1861–1930), NY State Attorney General, 1919–1922

Darrin Sharif

In August 2013, he announced his candidacy for the 2014 Newark mayoral election joining the field with fellow council members Ras Baraka and Anibal Ramos, Jr. and former Assistant State Attorney General Shavar Jeffries.

Dreamscape Online

At the time, public understanding of the role of ISPs was not well understood, so New York State Attorney General Dennis Vacco believed he could end internet child pornography by shutting down local ISPs services.

Driver's license in the United States

Texas was expected to also implement an enhanced driver's license program, but the program has been blocked by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, despite a state law authorizing the Texas Department of Public Safety to issue EDLs and a ruling by the state attorney general, Greg Abbott, that Texas' production of EDLs would comply with federal requirements.

Ed Thompson

Thompson became the Libertarian party nominee in April and ran against Democrat Jim Doyle, the state Attorney General, and incumbent Republican Governor Scott McCallum, former Lieutenant Governor who had assumed the office in 2001 after Governor Tommy Thompson left to become U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services.

George E. Pugh

After serving in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1848 to 1850, he served as State Attorney General from 1852 to 1854.

Hamilton Ward

Hamilton Ward, Jr., New York State Attorney General and son of Hamilton Ward, Sr.

Hamilton Ward, Sr., U.S. Representative and New York State Attorney General

Illinois gubernatorial election, 2002

The 2002 Illinois gubernatorial election pitted Congressman Rod Blagojevich and state Attorney General Jim Ryan.

Jeffrey Lundgren

State Attorney General Jim Petro appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati.

Joseph Curran

For information about the state attorney general in Maryland, see J. Joseph Curran, Jr.

North Carolina Democratic primary, 2008

Voters and watchdog groups complained that it was a turnout-suppression effort, and the state Attorney General Roy Cooper ordered them to stop making the calls.

Ras Baraka

Baraka is a candidate in the 2014 Newark mayoral election in a field that includes Council Members Anibal Ramos, Jr. and Darrin S. Sharif and former Assistant State Attorney General Shavar Jeffries.

Red Lake Indian Reservation

Many state residents turned against the plan, and it was ruled to be illegal by the state Attorney General Mike Hatch.

Robert L. Bobbitt

In 1929, Governor Dan Moody of Taylor, Texas, who had unseated Miriam Ferguson in the 1926 Democratic runoff election, appointed Bobbitt to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Claude Pollard as Texas state Attorney General.

Robert P. Griffin

He was elected November 8, 1966, to a full six-year term, defeating former Governor Soapy Williams by a 56% to 44% margin, commencing January 3, 1967 and was reelected in 1972, winning a tough race against state Attorney General Frank J. Kelley, and served from May 11, 1966, to January 2, 1979.

Schoonmaker

Augustus Schoonmaker, Jr. (1828-1894), New York State Attorney General from 1877 to 1879

Tawana Brawley rape allegations

Under the authority of New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams, a grand jury was called to hear evidence.

Tekamah, Nebraska

Don Stenberg, State Treasurer of Nebraska and former State Attorney General

Texas gubernatorial election, 1982

The Democrats nominated one-term State Attorney General Mark White of Houston to face the outspoken and controversial Republican incumbent from Dallas for the general election.

United States Senate election in New York, 1992

The Democratic primary campaign featured State Attorney General Robert Abrams, former U.S. Congresswoman and 1984 vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, Reverend Al Sharpton, Congressman Robert J. Mrazek, and New York City Comptroller and former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman.

University of Maine School of Law

Many of Maine's judges, legal scholars, politicians and community leaders graduated from the law school, including the Chief Justices of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Leigh Saufley and Daniel Wathen, state Attorney General G. Steven Rowe, State Senate President Libby Mitchell, U.S. District Court Judge John A. Woodcock, former Governor John McKernan and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine, Paula D. Silsby.

Wayne L. Kidwell

Wayne L. Kidwell (born June 15, 1938) is a retired Idaho Supreme Court justice and a former Idaho state attorney general who also has served as an Idaho state senator and an associate deputy attorney general in the administration of President Ronald Reagan.

Whiteclay, Nebraska

On February 22, 2012 an amended complaint seeking injunctive relief in the OST's lawsuit was filed in response to public comments made to the Nebraska Radio Network on February 10, 2012 by the Nebraska State Attorney General Jon Bruning, the highest law enforcement officer in the state.