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New Jersey Attorney General

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Jurisdiction
  
New Jersey

Website
  
http://www.nj.gov/lps

Parent agency
  
State of New Jersey

New Jersey Attorney General

Headquarters
  
Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, 25 Market Street, Trenton, New Jersey

Agency executive
  
Christopher Porrino, Attorney General

The attorney general of New Jersey is a member of the executive cabinet of the state and oversees the Department of Law and Public Safety. The office is appointed by the Governor of New Jersey, confirmed by the New Jersey Senate, and term limited. Under the provisions of the New Jersey State Constitution, the Attorney General serves a concurrent four-year term to the governor.

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The conventional wisdom is that the Attorney General cannot be removed from office except "for cause" by the Governor or by way of legislative impeachment.

It is fifth in the line of succession after the Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, President of the New Jersey Senate, and Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly. The Attorney General cannot also serve as the Lieutenant Governor.

List of office holders

Holders of the office of Attorney General include:

Colonial period

  • 1704–1714: Alexander Griffith
  • 1714–1719: Thomas Gordon
  • 1719–1723: Jeremiah Basse
  • 1723–1728: James Alexander
  • 1728–1733: Lawrence Smyth
  • 1733–1754: Joseph Warrell
  • 1754–1776: Cortlandt Skinner

    • Post-independence

  • 1776–1783: William Paterson
  • 1783–1792: Joseph Bloomfield
  • 1792–1811: Aaron Woodruff
  • 1811: Andrew S. Hunter
  • 1812–1817: Aaron Woodruff
  • 1817–1829: Theodore Frelinghuysen
  • 1829–1833: Samuel L. Southard
  • 1833–1838: John Moore White
  • 1838–1841: Richard Stockton Field
  • 1841–1844: George P. Mollesson
  • 1844–1845: Richard P. Thompson
  • 1845–1850: Abraham Browning
  • 1850–1852: Lucius Elmer
  • 1852–1857: Richard P. Thompson
  • 1857–1861: William L. Dayton
  • 1861–1867: Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
  • 1867–1870: George M. Robeson
  • 1870–1875: Robert Gilchrist, Jr.
  • 1875: Joel Parker
  • 1875–1877: Jacob Vanatta
  • 1877–1897: John P. Stockton
  • 1897–1902: Samuel H. Grey
  • 1902–1903: Thomas N. McCarter
  • 1903–1908: Robert H. McCarter
  • 1908–1914: Edmund Wilson
  • 1914–1919: John W. Wescott
  • 1919–1924: Thomas F. McCran
  • 1924–1929: Edward L. Katzenbach
  • 1929–1934: William A. Stevens
  • 1934–1944: David T. Wilentz
  • 1944–1948: Walter D. Van Riper
  • 1948–1954: Theodore D. Parsons
  • 1954–1958: Grover C. Richman, Jr.
  • 1958–1962: David D. Furman
  • 1962–1970: Arthur J. Sills
  • 1970–1974: George F. Kugler, Jr.
  • 1974–1978: William F. Hyland
  • 1978–1981: John J. Degnan
  • 1981–1982: James R. Zazzali
  • 1982–1986: Irwin I. Kimmelman
  • 1986–1989: W. Cary Edwards
  • 1989–1990: Peter N. Perretti, Jr.
  • 1990–1994: Robert Del Tufo
  • 1994–1996: Deborah T. Poritz
  • 1996–1999: Peter Verniero
  • 1999–2002: John Farmer Jr.
  • 2002–2003: David Samson
  • 2003–2006: Peter C. Harvey was appointed as Acting Attorney General on February 15, 2003, and was confirmed by the Senate as Attorney General on June 16, 2003.
  • 2006: Zulima Farber (resigned effective August 31, 2006)
  • 2006–2007: Stuart Rabner (confirmed on September 25, 2006, served from September 26, 2006 – June 2007)
  • 2007–2010: Anne Milgram (confirmed on 21 June 2007, sworn in 29 June 2007)
  • 2010–2011: Paula T. Dow (confirmed on February 22, 2010, sworn in on February 23, 2010)
  • 2012–2013: Jeffrey S. Chiesa (sworn in on January 10, 2012) (Resigned to become United States Senator effective June 6, 2013).
  • 2013–2016: John Jay Hoffman, acting AG
  • 2016–: Robert Lougy, acting AG
  • 2016-present Christopher Porrino

    • References

    New Jersey Attorney General Wikipedia
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