U.S. District Attorneys in New York
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U.S. District Attorneys in New York
U.S. District Attorneys for New York, 1789-1815(may beincomplete!)
RichardHarison 1789-1801EdwardLivingston 1801-03NathanSanford 1803-15
U.S. District Attorneys for New York, 1865-1998(may beincomplete!)
BenjaminD. Silliman 1865-66BenjaminF. Tracy 1866-77AsaW. Tenney 1877-85MarkD. Wilber 1885-89JesseJohnson 1889-94JohnOakey 1894JamesL. Bennett 1894-98GeorgeH. Pettit 1898-1902WilliamJ. Youngs 1902-15LouisR. Bick 1915MelvilleJ. France 1915-19JamesD. Bell 1919LeRoyW. Ross 1919-21WallaceE. J. Collins 1921RalphC. Greene 1921-25WilliamA. De Groot 1925-29HowardW. Ameli 1929-34LeoJ. Hickey 1934-37HaroldSt. Leo O'Dougherty 1937-38MichaelF. Walsh 1938-39VineH. Smith 1939HaroldM. Kennedy 1939-44T.Vincent Quinn 1944-45MilesF. McDonald 1945T.Vincent Quinn 1945-46J.Vincent Keogh 1946-50FrankJ. Parker 1950-53LeonardP. Moore 1953-57CorneliusW. Wickersham, Jr. 1957-61ElliotKahaner 1961JosephP. Hoey 1961-69VincentT. McCarthy 1969EdwardA. Neaher 1969-71RobertA. Morse 1971-73EdwardJ. Boyd 1973-74DavidG. Trager 1974-78EdwardR. Korman 1978-82RaymondJ. Dearie 1982-86ReenaRaggi 1986AndrewJ. Maloney 1986-92MaryJo White 1992-93ZacharyW. Carter 1993-98
U.S. District Attorneys for New York, 1815-1998(may beincomplete!)
RogerSkinner 1815-19JacobSutherland 1819-23SamuelBeardsley 1823-31NathanielS. Benton 1831JoshuaA. Spencer 1841-45WilliamF. Allen 1845-47GeorgeW. Clinton 1847-50JamesR. Lawrence 1850-53HenryA. Foster 1853JohnB. Skinner 1853SamuelB. Garvin 1853-58JamesB. Spencer 1858-61WilliamA. Dart 1861RichardCrowley 1875-79MartinI. Townsend 1879-86DanielN. Lockwood 1886-89DeAlva S. Alexander 1889-93WilliamA. Poucher 1893-97EmoryP. Close 1897-99CharlesH. Brown 1899-1900GeorgeB. Curtiss 1900-13JohnH. Gleason 1913-16DennisB. Lucey 1916-21ClarenceE. Williams 1921HiramC. Todd 1921-22EarleGallufo 1922BenjaminC. Mead 1922-23OliverD. Burden 1923-36RalphL. Emmons 1936-43IrvingJ. Higbee 1943-51EdmundPort 1951-53AnthonyF. Caffrey 1953TheodoreF. Bowes 1953-61JustinJ. Mahoney 1961-69JamesM. Sullivan, Jr. 1969SamuelT. Betts III 1969-73JamesM. Sullivan, Jr. 1973-76PaulV. French 1976-78GeorgeH. Lowe 1978-82GustoveJ. DiBianco 1982FrederickJ. Scullin, Jr. 1982-92GaryL. Sharpe 1992-94ThomasJ. Maroney 1994-98
U.S. District Attorneys for New York, 1815-2020(may beincomplete!)
JonathanFisk 1815-19RobertL. Tillotson 1819-28JohnDuer 1828-29JamesA. Hamilton 1829-34WilliamM. Price 1834-38BenjaminF. Butler 1838-41OgdenHoffman 1841-45BenjaminF. Butler 1845-48CharlesMcVean 1848LorenzoB. Shepard 1849-50J.Prescott Hall 1850-53CharlesO'Conor 1853-54JohnMcKeon 1854-58TheodoreSedgwick 1858-59JamesI. Roosevelt 1859-61E.Delafield Smith 1861-65DanielS. Dickinson 1865-66SamuelG. Courtney 1866-69EdwardsPierrepont 1869-70NoahDavis 1870-72GeorgeBliss, Jr. 1873-77StewartL. Woodford 1877-83ElihuRoot 1883-85WilliamDorsheimer 1885-86StephenA. Walker 1886-89EdwardMitchell 1889-94HenryC. Platt 1894WallaceMacfarlane 1894-98HenryL. Burnett 1898-1906HenryL. Stimson 1906-09HenryA. Wise 1909-13H.Snowden Marshall 1913-17FrancisG. Caffey 1917-21WilliamHayward 1921-25EmoryR. Buckner 1925-27CharlesH. Tuttle 1927-30RobertE. Manley 1930-31GeorgeZ. Medalie 1931-33ThomasE. Dewey 1933MartinConboy 1933-35FrancisW. H. Adams 1935LamarHardy 1935-38GregoryF. Noonan 1938-39JohnT. Cahill 1939-41MathiasF. Correa 1941-43HowardF. Corcoran 1943JamesB. M. McNally 1943-44JohnF. X. McGohey 1944-49IrvingH. Saypol 1949-51MilesJ. Lane 1951-53J.Edward Lumbard 1953-55LloydF. MacMahon 1955PaulW. Williams 1955-58ArthurH. Christy 1958-59S.Hazard Gillespie, Jr. 1959-61MortonS. Robson 1961RobertM. Morgenthau 1961-62VincentL. Broderick 1962RobertM. Morgenthau 1962-70WhitneyNorth Seymour, Jr. 1970-73PaulJ. Curran 1973-75ThomasJ. Cahill 1975-76RobertB. Fiske, Jr. 1976-80WilliamM. Tendy 1980JohnS. Martin, Jr. 1980-83RudolphW. Giuliani 1983-89BenitoRomano 1989OttoG. Obermaier 1989-93RogerS. Hayes 1993MaryJo White 1993-2002JamesComey 2002-03DavidN. Kelley 2003-05MichaelJ. Garcia 2005-08LevL. Dassin 2008-09PreetBharara 2009-17JoonKim 2017-18GeoffreyBerman 2018-20AudreyStrauss 2020-
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Attorneys for New York, 1900-98(may beincomplete!)
CharlesH. Brown 1900-06LymanM. Bass 1906-09JohnLord O'Brian 1909-14StephenT. Lockwood 1915-22WilliamJ. Donovan 1922-24ThomasPenney, Jr. 1924-25RichardH. Templeton 1925-34GeorgeL. Grobe 1934-53JohnO. Henderson 1953-59NeilA. Farmelo 1959-61JohnT. Curtin 1961-67ThomasA. Kennelly 1968AndrewF. Phelan 1968-69EdgarC. NeMoyer 1969KennethH. Schroeder, Jr. 1969-72JohnT. Elfvin 1972-75RichardJ. Arcara 1975-81RogerP. Williams 1981-82SalvatoreR. Martoche 1982-86RogerP. Williams 1986-88DennisC. Vacco 1988-93PatrickH. NeMoyer 1993-97DeniseE. O'Donnell 1997-98
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