U.S. District Attorneys in Iowa
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U.S. District Attorneys in Iowa
U.S. District Attorneys for Iowa, 1838-83(may beincomplete!)
CyrusS. Jacobs 1838IsaacVan Allen 1838-40CharlesWeston 1840-43JohnG. Deshler 1843-45EdwardJohnston 1845-47IsaacM. Preston 1847-50StephenWhicher 1850-52JosephC. Knapp 1852-60W.H. F. Gurley 1860-63RobertH. Gilmore 1863-65CalebBaldwin 1865-67MiltonD. Browning 1867-69WilliamFletcher Sapp 1869-73JamesT. Lane 1873-82DeWittC. Cram 1883
U.S. District Attorneys for Iowa, 1883-2001(may beincomplete!)
MauriceD. O'Connell 1883-86TimothyP. Murphy 1886-90MauriceD. O'Connell 1890-94CatoSells 1894-98HoraceG. McMillan 1898-1907FrederickF. Faville 1907-13AnthonyVan Wagenen 1913-14FrankA. O'Connor 1914-21GuyP. Linville 1921-27BennettE. Rhinehart 1927-31HarryM. Reed 1931-34EdwardG. Dunn 1934-40TobiasE. Diamond 1940-52MichaelL. Mason 1952-53F.G. Van Alstine 1953-61DonaldE. O'Brien 1961-67SteveTurner 1967AsherE. Schroeder 1967-69EvanL. Hultman 1969-77JamesH. Reynolds 1977-82EvanL. Hultman 1982-86RobertL. Teig 1986CharlesW. Larson 1986-93RobertL. Teig 1993StephenJ. Rapp 1993-2001
U.S. District Attorneys for Iowa, 1882-1998(may beincomplete!)
JohnS. Runnels 1882-85DanielO. Finch 1885-89LewisMiles 1889-93CharlesD. Fullen 1893-1902ClaudeR. Porter 1914-18EdwinG. Moon 1918-22RalphPringle 1922-24EdwinG. Moon 1924RossR. Mowry 1924-32RobertW. Colflesh 1932-34EdwinG. Moon 1934-39CloidI. Level 1939JohnK. Valentine 1939-40HughB. McCoy 1940MauriceF. Donegan 1940-49WilliamR. Hart 1949-53RoyL. Stephenson 1953-60RoyW. Meadows 1960-61DonaldA. Wine 1961-65PhilipT. Riley 1965DonaldM. Statton 1965-67JerryE. Williams 1967JamesP. Rielly 1967-69AllenL. Donielson 1969-76GeorgeH. Perry 1976-77PaulA. Zoss, Jr. 1977JamesR. Rosenbaum 1977RoxanneBarton Conlin 1977-81KermitB. Anderson 1981RichardC. Turner 1981-86ChristopherD. Hagen 1986-90GeneW. Shepard 1990-93DonCarlos Nickerson 1993-98
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