U.S. District Attorneys in Pennsylvania
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U.S. District Attorneys in Pennsylvania
U.S. District Attorneys for Pennsylvania, 1789-1801(may beincomplete!)
WilliamLewis 1789-91WilliamRawle 1791-99JaredIngersoll 1800-01
U.S. District Attorneys for Pennsylvania, 1801-1998(may beincomplete!)
AlexanderJ. Dallas 1801-14CharlesJared Ingersoll 1815-29GeorgeM. Dallas 1829-31HenryD. Gilpin 1831-37JohnM. Read 1837-41WilliamM. Meredith 1841-42HenryM. Watts 1842-45ThomasMcKean Pettit 1845-49JohnW. Ashmead 1849-54JamesC. Van Dyke 1854-57GeorgeM. Wharton 1857-60GeorgeA. Coffey 1861-64CharlesGilpin 1864-68JohnP. O'Neil 1868-69AubreyH. Smith 1869-73WilliamMcMichael 1873-75JohnK. Valentine 1875-88JohnR. Read 1888-92ElleryP. Ingham 1892-96JamesM. Beck 1896-1900JamesB. Holland 1900-04J.Whitaker Thompson 1904-12JohnC. Smartley 1912-13FrancisF. Kane 1913-19CharlesD. McAvoy 1920-21GeorgeW. Coles 1921-29CalvinS. Boyer 1929-30HowardB. Lewis 1931EdwardW. Wells 1931-33CharlesD. McAvoy 1933-37GuyK. Bard 1937J.Cullen Ganey 1937-40EdwardA. Kallick 1940GeraldA. Gleeson 1940-53JosephG. Hildenberger 1953W.Wilson White 1953-57G.Clinton Fogwell, Jr. 1957HaroldK. Wood 1957-59WalterE. Alessandroni 1959-61JosephLeo McGlynn, Jr. 1959-61JosephS. Lord III 1961DrewJ. T. O'Keefe 1961-69LouisC. Bechtle 1969-72CarlJoseph Melone 1972RobertE. J. Curran 1972-76JonasC. Undercofler III 1976DavidW. Marston 1976-78RobertN. DeLuca 1978PeterF. Vaira 1978-83EdwardS. G. Dennis 1983-88MichaelM. Baylson 1988-93MichaelJ. Rotko 1993MichaelR. Stiles 1993-98
U.S. District Attorneys for Pennsylvania, 1901-2007(may beincomplete!)
SamuelJ. M. McCarrell 1901-07CharlesB. Witmer 1907-11AndrewB. Dunsmore 1911-13RogersL. Burnett 1913-21AndrewB. Dunsmore 1921-34FrankJ. McDonnell 1934-35ArthurA. Maguire 1935FrederickV. Follmer 1935-46ArthurA. Maguire 1946-53JosephC. Kreder 1953J.Julius Levy 1953-57RobertJ. Harrigan 1957-58DanielH. Jenkins 1958-61BernardJ. Brown 1961-69JohnS. Cottone 1969-79CarltonM. O'Mally, Jr. 1979-82DavidD. Queen 1982-85JamesJ. West 1985-93WayneP. Samuelson 1993DavidM. Barasch 1993-98TomMarino 2002-07
Officeholding Events(may be incomplete!)
U.S. District Attorneys for Pennsylvania, 1801-1998(may beincomplete!)
JamesHamilton 1801-18AndrewStewart 1818-21AlexanderBreckenridge 1821-30GeorgeW. Buchanan 1830-32BenjaminPatton, Jr. 1832-39JohnP. Anderson 1839-41CorneliusDarragh 1841-44WilliamO'Hara Robinson 1844-45JohnL. Dawson 1845-50J.Bowman Sweitzer 1850-53CharlesShaler 1853-57RichardB. Roberts 1857-61RobertB. Carnahan 1861-70HenryB. Swope 1870-74DavidReed 1874-76HenryH. McCormick 1876-80WilliamA. Stone 1880-86GeorgeA. Allen 1886-89WalterLyon 1889-93HarryA. Hall 1893-97StephenC. McCandless 1893DanielB. Heiner 1897-1902JamesS. Young 1902-05JohnW. Dunkle 1905-09JohnH. Jordan 1909-13EdwinL. Humes 1913-18R.Lindsay Crawford 1918-19EdwinL. Humes 1919-20RobertJ. Dodds 1920DenisJoseph Driscoll 1920-21WalterLyon 1921-25JohnD. Meyer 1925-29LouisE. Graham 1929-33HoratioS. Dumbauld 1933-35CharlesF. Uhl 1935-39GeorgeMashank 1939-41CharlesF. Uhl 1941-47OwenMcIntosh Burns 1947-49EdwardC. Boyle 1949-53JohnW. McIlvaine 1953-55D.Malcolm Anderson, Jr. 1955-57HubertTeitelbaum 1957-61JosephS. Ammerman 1961-63GustaveDiamond 1963-69RichardL. Thornburgh 1969-75BlairA. Griffith 1975-78RobertJ. Cindrich 1978-81J.Alan Johnson 1981-88CharlesD. Sheehy 1988TomCorbett 1989-93FrederickW. Thieman 1993-97LindaL. Kelly 1997-98HarryLitman 1998
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