U.S. District Attorneys in Massachusetts
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U.S. District Attorneys in Massachusetts
U.S. District Attorneys for Massachusetts, 1789-1998(maybe incomplete!)
ChristopherGore 1789-96HarrisonGray Otis 1796JohnDavis 1796-1801GeorgeBlake 1801-29AndrewDunlop 1829-35JohnMills 1835-41FranklinDexter 1841-45RobertRantoul, Jr. 1845-50GeorgeLunt 1850-53BenjaminF. Hallett 1853-57CharlesLevi Woodbury 1857-61RichardH. Dana, Jr. 1861-66GeorgeS. Hillard 1868-70DavidH. Mason 1870-73GeorgeP. Sanger 1873-86GeorgeM. Stearns 1886-87OwenA. Galvin 1887-90FrankD. Allen 1890-93ShermanHoar 1893-97BoydB. Jones 1897-1901HenryP. Moultin 1901-05MelvinO. Adams 1905-06AsaP. French 1906-14GeorgeW. Anderson 1914-17ThomasJ. Boynton 1917-20DanielJ. Gallagher 1920-21RobertO. Harris 1921-25HaroldP. Williams 1925-26FrederickH. Tarr 1926-33FrancisJ. W. Ford 1933-38JohnA. Canavan 1938-39EdmundJ. Brandon 1939-46GeorgeF. Garrity 1946-47WilliamT. McCarthy 1947-49GeorgeF. Garrity 1949-53AnthonyJulian 1953-59ElliotL. Richardson 1959-61W.Arthur Garrity, Jr. 1961-66PaulF. Markham 1966-69HerbertF. Travers, Jr. 1969-71JamesN. Gabriel 1971-72JosephL. Tauro 1972JamesN. Gabriel 1973-77EdwardF. Harrington 1977-81WilliamF. Weld 1981-86RobertS. Mueller III 1986-87FrankL. McNamara, Jr. 1987-89JermiahT. O'Sullivan 1989PeterA. Mullin 1989WayneA. Budd 1989-93A.John Pappalardo 1993DonaldK. Stern 1993-98
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