Alabama Attorneys General


Attorney General Term Comments
Steve Marshall 2017 -
Luther Strange 2011 - 2017 Strange was appointed to fulfill the unexpired U.S. Senate term of Jeff Sessions by Governor Robert Bentley on February 9, 2017.
Troy King 2004 - 2011 King was appointed to fill the vacancy created by Bill Pryor's resignation by Governor Bob Riley on March 8, 2004.
Bill Pryor 1997 - 2004 Pryor resigned as attorney general on February 20, 2004, to accept a recess appointment from President George W. Bush as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
Jeff Sessions 1995 - 1997 Sessions was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 1996.
Jimmy Evans 1991 - 1995
Don Siegelman 1987 - 1991
Charles Graddick 1979 - 1987
Bill Baxley 1971 - 1979
MacDonald Gallion 1967 - 1971
Richmond Flowers 1963 - 1967
MacDonald Gallion 1959 - 1963
John M. Patterson 1955 - 1959
Bernard Sykes 1954 - 1955 Sykes was appointed acting attorney general on June 24, 1954.
Si Garrett 1951 - 1954
Albert A. Carmichael 1947 - 1951
William Northington McQueen 1943 -1947
Thomas S. Lawson 1993 - 1943
Albert A. Carmichael 1935 - 1939
Thomas E. Knight, Jr. 1931 - 1935
Charlie C. McCall 1927 - 1931
Harwell G. Davis 1993 - 1927
James Q. Smith 1919 - 1923
William Logan Martin 1915 - 1919
Robert C. Brickell 1911 - 1915
Alexander M. Garber 1907 - 1911
Massey Wilson 1903 - 1907
Charles G. Brown 1898 - 1903
Willaim C. Fitts 1894 - 1898
William L. Martin 1889 - 1894
Thomas N. McClellan 1884 - 1889
Henry C. Tompkins 1878 - 1884
John W. A. Sanford 1874 - 1878
Benajmin Gardner 1872 - 1874
John W. A. Sanford 1870 - 1872
Joshua Morse 1868 - 1870
John W. A. Sanford 1865 - 1868
Marion A. Baldwin 1847 - 1865
William H. Martin 1847
Thomas D. Clarke 1843 - 1847
Mathew W. Lindsay 1839 - 1843
Lincoln Clark 1838 - 1839
John Dennis Phelan 1836 - 1838
Alexander B. Meek 1836 Meek was appointed to fill the vacancy created when Peter Martin was appointed to the circuit court bench.
Peter Martin 1832 - 1836
Constantine Perkins 1825 - 1832
Thomas White 1823 - 1825
Henry Hitchcock 1819 - 1823