U.S. District Attorneys in North Carolina
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U.S. District Attorneys in North Carolina
U.S. District Attorneys for North Carolina, 1790-1853(maybe incomplete!)
WilliamHenry Hill 1790JohnSitgreaves 1790WilliamHill 1790-95BenjaminWood 1795-1808RobertH. Jones 1808-16ThomasP. Devereux 1816-17JamesMcKay 1817-21ThomasP. Devereux 1821-39H.L. Holmes 1839-40JamesB. Sheppard 1840WilliamH. Haywood, Jr. 1840-43DuncanK. McRae 1843-50HiramW. Husted 1850-53RobertP. Dick 1853
U.S. District Attorneys for North Carolina, 1870-1998(maybe incomplete!)
D.H. Starbuck 1870-72RichardC. Badger 1872-78J.W. Albertson 1878-82W.S. O. Robinson 1882-85FabiusH. Busbee 1885-89CharlesA. Cook 1889-93CharlesB. Aycock 1893-98ClaudeM. Bernard 1898-1902HarrySkinner 1902-10HerbertF. Seawell 1910-13FrancisD. Winston 1913-16JamesO. Carr 1916-19ThomasD. Warren 1919-20E.F. Aydlett 1920-21IrvinB. Tucker 1921-30WalterH. Fisher 1930-34JamesO. Carr 1934-45CharlesF. Rouse 1945-46JohnH. Manning 1946-51CharlesP. Green 1951-53JulianT. Gaskill 1953-61RobertH. Cowen 1961-69WarrenH. Coolidge 1969-73ThomasP. McNamara 1973-76CarlL. Tilghman 1976-77GeorgeM. Anderson 1977-80JamesL. Blackburn 1980-81SamuelJ. Currin 1981-87J.Douglas McCullough 1987-88MargaretP. Currin 1988-93JamesR. Dedrick 1993JohnD. McCullough 1993JaniceMcKenzie Cole 1994-98
U.S. District Attorneys for North Carolina, 1927-98(may beincomplete!)
FrankA. Linney 1927-28EdwinL. Gavin 1928-32JohnR. McCrary 1932-34CarlisleW. Higgins 1934-47BryceR. Holt 1947-54EdwinM. Stanley 1954-57RobertL. Gavin 1957-58JamesE. Holshouser 1958-61LafayetteWilliams 1961WilliamH. Murdock 1961-69WilliamL. Osteen 1969-74N.Carlton Tilley, Jr. 1974-77BenjaminH. White, Jr. 1977HenryM. Michaux, Jr. 1977-81KennethW. McAllister 1981-86RobertH. Edmunds, Jr. 1986-93BenjaminH. White, Jr. 1993WalterC. Holton, Jr. 1994-98
U.S. District Attorneys for North Carolina, 1870-1998(maybe incomplete!)
D.H. Starbuck 1870-76VirgilS. Lusk 1876-80JamesE. Boyd 1880-85HamiltonC. Jones 1885-89CharlesPrice 1889-93RobertB. Glenn 1893-97AlfredE. Holton 1897-1914WilliamC. Hammer 1914-20StonewallJ. Durham 1920-21FrankA. Linney 1921-27ThomasJ. Harkins 1927-31CharlesA. Jonas 1931-32FrankC. Patton 1932-33MarcusErwin 1933-39W.Roy Francis 1939-40TheronL. Caudle 1940-45DavidE. Henderson 1945-48ThomasE. Uzzell 1948-53JamesM. Baley, Jr. 1953-61HughE. Monteith 1961WilliamMedford 1961-69JamesO. Israel, Jr. 1969KeithS. Snyder 1969-77HaroldM. Edwards 1977-81HaroldJ. Bender 1981CharlesR. Brewer 1981-87ThomasJ. Ashcraft 1987-93JerryW. Miller 1993MarkT. Calloway 1994-98
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