U.S. District Attorneys in Tennessee
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U.S. District Attorneys in Tennessee
U.S. District Attorneys for Tennessee, 1790-1803(may beincomplete!)
AndrewJackson 1790-97ThomasGray 1797-98WilliamP. Anderson 1798-1802ThomasStuart 1802-03
U.S. District Attorneys for Tennessee, 1805-1998(may beincomplete!)
EdwardScott 1805-07JamesTremble 1807-08HughL. White 1808-09JamesTremble 1809-10JohnMcCampbell 1810-21PryorLea 1821-28JohnA. McKinney 1828-40GeorgeW. Churchill 1840-43CrawfordW. Hall 1843-44ThomasC. Lyon 1844-50SamuelR. Rogers 1850-53J.C. Ramsey 1853RichardJ. Hays 1853-57J.C. Ramsey 1857-61JohnL. Hopkins 1861JohnM. Fleming 1861E.C. Camps 1869-76GeorgeAndrews 1876-79XenophenWheeler 1879-83JamesM. Meek 1883-85JamesC. J. Williams 1885-89HughB. Lindsay 1889-93JamesH. Bible 1893-97JamesE. Mayfield 1897WilliamD. Wright 1897-1905JamesR. Penlaud 1905-10JamesB. Cox 1910-13LewisM. Coleman 1913-17WesleyT. Kennerly 1917-21GeorgeC. Taylor 1921-28EverettGreer 1928-30WilliamJ. Carter 1930-33JamesB. Frazier, Jr. 1933-48OttoT. Ault 1948-53JohnH. Reddy 1953JohnC. Crawford, Jr. 1953-61JohnH. Reddy 1961-69RobertE. Simpson 1969JohnL. Bowers, Jr. 1969-77RobertE. Simpson 1977JohnH. Cary 1977-81WilliamT. Dillard 1981JohnW. Gill, Jr. 1981-91JerryG. Cunningham 1991-93DavidG. Dake 1993GuyW. Blackwell 1993CarlK. Kirkpatrick 1993-
U.S. District Attorneys for Tennessee, 1839-1998(may beincomplete!)
JamesP. Grundy 1839ReturnJ. Meigs III 1841-42JohnM. Lea 1842-44ThomasD. Mosley 1844-50W.F. Kercheval 1850-53ThomasB. Childress 1853-61HermanCox 1861-62JohnTrimble 1862-63HoraceH. Harrison 1863R.McPhail Smith 1869-72HoraceH. Harrison 1872-73ArchelusM. Hughes 1873-77JamesA. Warder 1877-82AndrewMcClain 1882-85ErnestPillow 1885-89JohnRuhm 1889-94TullyBrown 1894-98AbramM. Tillman 1898-1914LeeDouglas 1914-22A.V. McLane 1922-33HoraceFrierson, Jr. 1933-47WardHudgins 1947-52DickL. Johnson 1952-53ArmisteadO. Denning 1953FredElledge, Jr. 1953-61KennethHorwell 1961-64JamesF. Neal 1964-66GilbertS. Merritt, Jr. 1966-69CharlesH. Anderson 1969-77HaroldD. Hardin 1977-81JoeB. Brown 1981-91ErnestW. Williams 1991-94JohnM. Roberts 1994-98
U.S. District Attorneys for Tennessee, 1803-1998(may beincomplete!)
ThomasStuart 1803-10JohnE. Beck 1810-18HenryCrabb 1818-27ThomasH. Fletcher 1827-29JamesCollinsworth 1829-35WilliamT. Brown 1835-36JamesP. Grundy 1836-38JosephH. Talbot 1838HenryW. McCorry 1838-50CharlesN. Gibbs 1850-53RichardJ. Hays 1853-56AlexanderW. McCampbell 1856-61JohnM. McCarmack 1861-77WilliamW. Murray 1877-82WilliamF. Poston 1882-85HenryW. McCorry 1885-89SamuelW. Hawkins 1889-94JuliusA. Taylor 1894-95CharlesB. Simonton 1895-98GeorgeRandolph 1898-1910CaseyTodd 1910-14HubertFisher 1914-17WilliamD. Kyser 1917-21S.E. Murray 1921-26TilmonA. Lancaster 1926NugentDodds 1926LindsayB. Phillips 1926-31NelsonH. Carver 1931-32DwayneD. Maddox 1932-33WilliamMcClanahan 1933-48JohnBrown 1948-53MilsapsFitzhugh 1953-60WarnerHodges 1960-61ThomasL. Robinson 1961-69ThomasF. Turley, Jr. 1969-77W.J. Michael Cody 1977-81W.Hickman Ewing, Jr. 1981-91EdBryant 1991-93DanielA. Clancy 1993VeronicaF. Coleman 1993-
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