U.S. District Attorneys in District of Columbia
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U.S. District Attorneys in District of Columbia
U.S. District Attorneys for Columbia, 1801-2004(may beincomplete!)
JohnThomson Mason 1801WalterJones, Jr. 1801-21ThomasSwann 1821-33FrancisScott Key 1833-41PhilipR. Fendall 1841-45JamesHoban 1845-46PhilipR. Fendall 1849-53PhilipBarton Key 1853-59RobertOuld 1859-61EdwardCarrington 1861-70GeorgeP. Fisher 1870-76HenryH. Wells 1875-80HarryH. Wells 1876-80GeorgeB. Corkhill 1880-84AugustusS. Worthington 1884-88JohnB. Hoge 1888-91CharlesC. Cole 1891-93ArthurA. Birney 1893-97HenryE. Davis 1897-99ThomasH. Anderson 1899-1901AshleyM. Gould 1901-02MorganH. Beach 1903-05DanielW. Baker 1905-10ClarenceR. Wilson 1910-14JohnE. Laskey 1914-21PeytonGordon 1921-28LeoA. Rover 1928-34LeslieC. Garnett 1934-37DavidA. Pine 1937-40EdwardM. Curran 1940-46GeorgeM. Fay 1946GeorgeE. McNeil 1946-47GeorgeM. Fay 1947-51CharlesM. Irelan 1951-53LeoA. Rover 1953-56OliverGasch 1956-61DavidCampion Acheson 1961-65JohnC. Conliff, Jr. 1965DavidG. Bress 1965-69ThomasA. Flannery 1969-71HaroldA. Titus, Jr. 1971-74EarlJ. Silbert 1974-79CarlRaul 1979CharlesF. C. Ruff 1979-81StanleyS. Harris 1981-83JosephE. diGenova 1983-88TimothyJ. Reardon III 1988JayB. Stephens 1988-93J.Ramsey Johnson 1993EricH. Holder, Jr. 1993-97MaryLou Leary 1997-98WilmaA. Lewis 1998-2001RoscoeC. Howard 2001-04
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
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