U.S. District Attorneys in New Jersey
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U.S. District Attorneys in New Jersey
U.S. District Attorneys for New Jersey, 1789-2012(may beincomplete!)
RichardStockton 1789-91AbrahamOgden 1791-98LuciusH. Stockton 1798-1801FrederickFrelinghuysen 1801GeorgeC. Maxwell 1801-03WilliamS. Pennington 1803-04JosephMcIlvaine 1804-21LuciusQ. C. Elmer 1824-28GarretD. Wall 1829-34JamesS. Green 1835-48WilliamHalstead 1850-53GarritS. Cannon 1853-58AnthonyQ. Keasby 1861-82JobH. Lippincott 1886-87SamuelF. Bigelow 1887-88GeorgeS. Duryee 1888-90HenryS. White 1890-94JohnW. Beekman 1894-96J.Kearny Rice 1896-1900DavidO. Watkins 1900-03CortlandParker, Jr. 1903JohnB. Vreeland 1903-13J.Warren Davis 1913-16CharlesF. Lynch 1916-19JosephL. Bodine 1919-20ElmerH. Geran 1920-22WalterG. Winne 1922-28JamesW. McCarthy 1928PhilipForman 1928-32HarlanBesson 1932-35JohnJ. Quinn 1935-40WilliamF. Smith 1940-41CharlesM. Phillips 1941-43ThornLord 1943-45EdgarH. Rossbach 1945-48IsaiahMatlack 1948AlfredE. Modarelli 1948-51GroverC. Richman, Jr. 1951-53WilliamF. Tompkins 1953-54RaymondDel Tufo, Jr. 1954-56HermanScott 1956ChesterA. Weidenburner 1956-61DavidM. Satz, Jr. 1961-69DonaldHorowitz 1969FrederickB. Lacey 1969-71HerbertJ. Stern 1971-74JonathanL. Goldstein 1974-77RobertJ. Del Tufo 1977-80WilliamW. Robertson 1980-81W.Hunt Dumont 1981-85ThomasW. Greelish 1985-87SamuelA. Alito, Jr. 1987-90MichaelChertoff 1990-94FaithS. Hochberg 1994-99RobertJ. Cleary 1999-2002ChrisChristie 2002-08RalphJ. Marra, Jr. 2008-09PaulJ. Fishman 2009-
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