Colorado Attorney General

Chief legal officer for U.S. state of Colorado

Attorney General of Colorado

Incumbent
Phil Weiser

since January 8, 2019

Colorado Department of Law
Constituting instrument| Colorado Constitution
Website| www.coag.gov

The Attorney General of the State of Colorado is the chief legal officer for the U.S. State of Colorado and the head of the Colorado Department of Law, a principal department of the Colorado state government. It is an elected position with a four-year term, and follows the same schedule as election of the governor. The incumbent Colorado Attorney General is Democrat Phil Weiser, who was elected in November 2018 to a four-year term that began on January 8, 2019.

The Department of Law has seven sections: Appellate, Natural Resources and Environmental, Consumer Protection, State Services, Civil Litigation and Employment Law, Criminal Justice, Revenue & Utilities, and Business & Licensing.[1]

## Attorneys general of the Territory of Colorado

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#  | Attorney General  | Party  | Term of Service

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1  | James E. Dalliba  | Republican | 1861–1862
2  | Samuel E. Brown  | Republican | 1862–1865
3  | George W. Chamberlain  | Republican | 1865–1869
4  | Henry C. Thatcher  | Republican | 1869–1873

From 1873 to 1877 the Attorney General position was filled by the U.S. Attorney due to lack of funding by the territorial government. In 1876 Colorado was admitted to the Union as a State.

## Attorneys general of the State of Colorado

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1  |  | A. J. Sampson | Republican | 1877–1878
2  |  | Charles W. Wright  | Republican | 1879–1880
3  |  | Charles H. Toll  | Republican | 1881–1882
4  |  | David F. Urmy  | Republican | 1883–1884
5  |  | Theodore H. Thomas  | Republican | 1885–1886
6  |  | Alvin Marsh  | Republican | 1887–1888
7  |  | Samuel W. Jones  | Republican | 1889–1890
8  |  | Joseph H. Maupin  | Democratic | 1891–1892
9  |  | Eugene Engley | People's Party | 1893–1894
10  |  | Byron L. Carr  | Republican | 1895–1898
11  |  | David M. Campbell  | Republican | 1899–1900
12  |  | Charles C. Post  | Republican | 1901–1902
13  |  | Nathan C. Miller  | Republican | 1903–1906
14  |  | William H. Dickson  | Republican | 1907–1908
15  |  | John T. Barnett  | Democratic | 1909–1910
16  |  | Benjamin Griffith  | Republican | 1911–1912
17  |  | Fred Farrar  | Democratic | 1913–1916
18  |  | Leslie E. Hubbard  | Democratic | 1917–1918
19  |  | Victor E. Keyes  | Republican | 1919–1922
20  |  | Russel W. Fleming  | Democratic | 1923–1924
21  |  | Wayne C. Williams  | Democratic | 1924–1925
22  |  | William Boatright  | Republican | 1925–1928
23  |  | Robert E. Winbourn  | Republican | 1929–1930
24  |  | John S. Underwood  | Republican | 1930–1931
25  |  | Clarence L. Ireland  | Republican | 1931–1932
26  |  | Paul P. Prosser | Democratic | 1933–1936
27  |  | Byron G. Rogers | Democratic | 1936–1940
28  |  | Gail L. Ireland | Republican | 1941–1945
29  |  | H. Lawrence Hinkley | Republican | 1945–1949
30  |  | John W. Metzger | Democratic | 1949–1950
31  |  | Duke W. Dunbar | Republican | 1951–1972
32  |  | John P. Moore | Republican | 1972–1974
33  |  | J.D. MacFarlane | Democratic | 1975–1982
34  |  | Duane Woodard | Republican | 1983–1987
Democratic | 1987-1991
35  |  | Gale Norton | Republican | 1991–1999
36  |  | Ken Salazar | Democratic | 1999–2005
37  |  | John Suthers | Republican | 2005–2015
38  |  | Cynthia Coffman | Republican | 2015–2019
39  |  | Phil Weiser | Democratic | 2019-present

## References

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1. ^ Office Duties and Responsibilities, Colorado Attorney General's Office

## External links

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Colorado at Wikipedia's sister projects

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* Colorado Attorney General official website
* Colorado Attorney General articles at Legal Newsline Legal Journal
* News and Commentary at FindLaw
* Colorado Revised Statutes at Law.Justia.com
* U.S. Supreme Court Opinions - "Cases with title containing: State of Colorado" at FindLaw
* Colorado Bar Association
* Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman profile at National Association of Attorneys General
* Press releases by year at Colorado Attorney General's office

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Attorneys general of the United States

United States Attorney General: ▌Pam Bondi (R)

▌Steve Marshall (R)

▌Treg Taylor (R)

▌Kris Mayes (D)

▌Tim Griffin (R)

▌Rob Bonta (D)

▌Phil Weiser (D)

▌William Tong (D)

▌Kathy Jennings (D)

▌James Uthmeier (R)

▌Christopher M. Carr (R)

▌Anne E. Lopez (D)

▌Raúl Labrador (R)

▌Kwame Raoul (D)

▌Todd Rokita (R)

▌Brenna Bird (R)

▌Kris Kobach (R)

▌Russell Coleman (R)

▌Liz Murrill (R)

▌Aaron Frey (D)

▌Anthony Brown (D)

▌Andrea Campbell (D)

▌Dana Nessel (D)

▌Keith Ellison (DFL)

▌Lynn Fitch (R)

▌Andrew Bailey (R)

▌Austin Knudsen (R)

▌Mike Hilgers (R)

▌Aaron Ford (D)

▌John Formella (R)

▌Matt Platkin (D)

▌Raúl Torrez (D)

▌Letitia James (D)

▌Jeff Jackson (D)

▌Drew Wrigley (R)

▌Dave Yost (R)

▌Gentner Drummond (R)

▌Dan Rayfield (D)

▌Dave Sunday (R)

▌Peter Neronha (D)

▌Alan Wilson (R)

▌Marty Jackley (R)

▌Jonathan Skrmetti (R)

▌Ken Paxton (R)

▌Derek Brown (R)

▌Charity Clark (D)

▌Jason Miyares (R)

▌Nick Brown (D)

▌JB McCuskey (R)

▌Josh Kaul (D)

▌Keith G. Kautz (R)

Federal districts:

▌Brian Schwalb (D)

Territories:

▌Gwen Tauiliili-Langkilde

▌Doug Moylan (R)

▌Ed Manibusan (D)

▌Lourdes Gómez

▌Gordon Rhea

Political party affiliations

* ▌29 Republicans (28 states, 1 territory)
* ▌24 Democrats (22 states, 1 territory, 1 district)
* ▌1 New Progressive (1 territory)
* ▌2 Unknown (2 territories)
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38°59′50″N 105°32′52″W﻿ / ﻿38.9972°N 105.5478°W﻿ / 38.9972; -105.5478﻿ (State of Colorado)
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