Attorney General of Colorado
Incumbent Phil Weiser since January 8, 2019
Colorado Department of Law
Constituting instrument	Colorado Constitution
Website	www.coag.gov

TheAttorney General of the State of Colorado is thechief legal officer for theU.S.State of Colorado and the head of theColorado Department of Law, a principal department of theColorado 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 isDemocratPhil 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 andEmployment Law,Criminal Justice, Revenue & Utilities, andBusiness & Licensing.^[1]

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

#	Image	Attorney General	Party	Term of Service
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

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

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