U.S. District Attorneys in California
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U.S. District Attorneys in California
U.S. District Attorneys for California, 1965-98(may beincomplete!)
ManuelL. Real 1965-66JohnX. Van de Kamp 1966-67WilliamM. Byrne, Jr. 1967-70RobertL. Meyer 1970-72WilliamD. Keller 1972-77RobertL. Brosio 1977AndreaM. Sheridan-Orden 1977-81AlexanderH. Williams III 1981StephenS. Trott 1981-83AlexanderH. Williams III 1983-84RobertC. Bonner 1984-89GaryA. Feess 1989RobertL. Brosio 1989-90LourdesG. Baird 1990-92TerreeBowers 1992-94NoraM. Manella 1994-98AlejandroMayorkas 1998-
U.S. District Attorneys for California, 1966-98(may beincomplete!)
JohnP. Hyland 1966-70DuaneD. Keyes 1970-77HermanSillas, Jr. 1977-80WilliamB. Shubb 1980-81FrancisM. Goldsberry II 1981DonaldB. Ayer 1981-86PeterA. Nowinski 1986-87DavidF. Levi 1987-90RichardJenkins 1990-91GeorgeL. O'Connell 1991-93RobertM. Twiss 1993CharlesJ. Stevens 1993-97PaulSeave 1997-
U.S. District Attorneys for California, 1850-1999(may beincomplete!)
CalhounBenham 1850-53SamuelWilliams Inge 1853-56WilliamBlanding 1856-57Peterdella Torre 1857-60CalhounBenham 1860-61WilliamH. Sharp 1861-64DelosLake 1864-69FrankM. Pixley 1869LorenzoD. Latimer 1869-73WalterVan Dyke 1873-76JohnM. Coghlan 1876-78PhillipTeare 1878-83SamuelG. Hilborn 1883-86JohnT. Carey 1886-90CharlesA. Garter 1890-94SamuelKnight 1894-95HenryS. Foote 1895-99FrankL. Coombs 1899-1901MarshallB. Woodworth 1901-05RobertT. Devlin 1905-12JohnL. McNab 1912-13B.L. McKinley 1913JohnW. Preston 1913-18Mrs.A. A. Adams 1918-20FrankM. Silva 1920-21J.T. Williams 1921-24SterlingCarr 1924-25GeorgeJ. Hatfield 1925-33I.M. Peckham 1933HarryH. McPike 1933-37FrankJ. Hennessy 1937-51ChaunceyF. Tramutolo 1951LloydH. Burke 1953-58RobertH. Schnacke 1958-59LynnJ. Gillard 1959-60LaurenceE. Dayton 1960-61CecilF. Poole 1961-69JamesL. Browning, Jr. 1969-77G.William Hunter 1977-81RodneyH. Hamblen 1981JosephP. Russoniello 1981-90WilliamT. McGivern 1990-92JohnA. Mendez 1992-93MichaelJ. Yamaguchi 1993-98RobertS. Mueller 1998-
U.S. District Attorneys for California, 1850-1998(may beincomplete!)
JamesMcHall Jones 1850AlfredWheeler 1851-53IsaacS. K. Ogier 1853-54PacificusOrd 1854-58J.R. Gitchell 1858-61KimballH. Dimmick 1861BillingtonC. Whiting 1861J.Marion Brooks 1887-88GeorgeJ. Davis 1888-89AureliusW. Hutton 1889-90WilloughbyCole 1890-92MatthewT. Allen 1892-93GeorgeJ. Denis 1893-97FrankP. Flint 1897-1901L.H. Valentine 1901-05OscarLawler 1905-09AloysiusMcCormick 1909-13AlbertSchoonover 1913-17JohnR. O'Connor 1917-21JosephC. Burke 1921-25SamuelW. McNabb 1925-33JohnR. Layng 1933PeirsonM. Hall 1933-37BenjaminHarrison 1937-40WilliamF. Palmer 1940-42LeoW. Silverstein 1942-43CharlesH. Carr 1943-46JamesM. Carter 1946-49ErnestA. Tolin 1949-51WalterS. Binns 1951-53LaughlinE. Waters 1953-61FrancisC. Whelan 1961-64ThomasR. Sheridan 1964ManuelL. Real 1964-66EdwinL. Miller, Jr. 1966-69HarryD. Steward 1969-75TerryJ. Knoepp 1975-77MichaelJ. Walsh 1977-80M.James Lorenz 1980-81WilliamH. Kennedy 1981-82PeterK. Nunez 1982-88WilliamBraniff 1988-93JamesW. Brannigan, Jr. 1993AlanD. Bersin 1993-98CharlesG. LaBella 1998-
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