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Colorado Attorney General

Chief legal officer for U.S. state of Colorado

Summary

Chief legal officer for U.S. state of Colorado

Field	Value
post	Attorney General
body	Colorado
insigniacaption	Executive Seal
image	AG Phil Weiser.jpg
incumbent	Phil Weiser
incumbentsince	January 8, 2019
department	Colorado Department of Law
constituting_instrument	Colorado Constitution
website

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 and re-elected in 2022.

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.

Attorneys general of the [[Territory of Colorado]]

#	Attorney General	Term of Service
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]]

#	Image	Attorney General	Party	Term of Service
1	[[File:Archibald J. Sampson, around 1870s (cropped).jpg	60px]]	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	[[File:Byron L. Carr, Colorado attorney general, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left) - Chas. Bohm, Denver, Col LCCN2004682546.jpg	60px]]	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	[[File:Bench and bar of Colorado - JOHN T. BARNETT.png	60px]]	John T. Barnett		Democratic	1909–1910
16		Benjamin Griffith		Republican	1911–1912
17		Fred Farrar		Democratic	1913–1916
18	[[File:Bench and bar of Colorado - LESLIE E. HUBBARD.png	60px]]	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	[[File:Bench and bar of Colorado - CLARENCE L. IRELAND.png	60px]]	Clarence L. Ireland		Republican	1931–1932
26		Paul P. Prosser		Democratic	1933–1936
27	[[File:Byron G. Rogers, 1953.jpg	60px]]	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	[[File:Norton.jpg	60px]]	Gale Norton		Republican	1991–1999
36	[[File:Kensalazar.jpg	60px]]	Ken Salazar		Democratic	1999–2005
37	[[File:John Suthers US Attorney (cropped).jpg	60px]]	John Suthers		Republican	2005–2015
38	[[File:CCoffman1 (cropped).jpg	60px]]	Cynthia Coffman		Republican	2015–2019
39	[[File:AG Phil Weiser.jpg	60px]]	Phil Weiser		Democratic	2019-present

References

[https://coag.gov/about-us Office Duties and Responsibilities, Colorado Attorney General's Office]

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