Texas State Attorneys General, 1846-2015(May beincomplete!) VolneyE. Howard 1846JohnWoods Harris 1846-49HenryPercy Brewster 1849-50AndrewJackson Hamilton 1850EbenezerAllen 1850-52ThomasJefferson Jennings 1852-56JamesWillie 1856-58MalcolmDaniel Graham 1858-60GeorgeM. Flournoy 1860-62NathanGeorge Shelley 1862-64B.E. Tarver 1864-65WilliamAlexander 1865-66WilliamMartin Walton 1866-67WilliamAlexander 1867EzekielB. Turner 1867-70WilliamAlexander 1870-74GeorgeW. Clark 1874-76HannibalHonestus Boone 1876-78GeorgeMcCormick 1878-80JamesHarvey McLeary 1880-82JohnD. Templeton 1882-86JimHogg 1886-90CharlesA. Culberson 1890-94M.M. Crane 1894-98ThomasS. Smith 1898-1901CharlesK. Bell 1901-04R.V. Davidson 1904-09JewelPreston Lightfoot 1910-12JamesDu Bose Walthall 1912-13BenFranklin Looney 1913-19CalvinMaples Cureton 1919-21W.A. Keeling 1921-25DanMoody 1925-27ClaudePollard 1927-29RobertLee Bobbitt 1929-31JamesV. Allred 1931-35WilliamMcCraw 1935-39GeraldC. Mann 1939-44GroverSellers 1944-47PriceDaniel 1947-53JohnBen Shepperd 1953-57WillWilson 1957-63WaggonerCarr 1963-67CrawfordC. Martin 1967-72JohnLuke Hill 1973-79MarkWhite 1979-83JimMattox 1983-91DanMorales 1991-99JohnCornyn 1999-2002GregAbbott 2002-15 Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1850:GeorgeW. Paschal, defeated. 1890:CharlesA. Culberson, elected. 1892:CharlesA. Culberson, elected. 1916:C.W. Johnson (Rep), defeated. 1938:RalphW. Yarborough (Dem), defeated for nomination. 1952:JohnBen Shepperd, elected. 1954:JohnBen Shepperd, elected. 1978:MarionPrice Daniel, Jr. (Dem), defeated in primary. 1978:JamesA. Baker III, defeated. 1994 Mar 8:DanMorales (Dem), nominated unopposed. 1994 Mar 8:PatriciaLykos (Rep), advanced to runoff;DonWittig (Rep), advanced to runoff;JohnMarshall (Rep), defeated in primary;TonyGarza (Rep), defeated in primary. 1994 Apr 12:DonWittig (Rep), nominated;PatriciaLykos (Rep), defeated in primary. 1994 Nov 8:DanMorales (Dem), elected;DonWittig (Rep), defeated;VickiFlores (Libertarian), defeated. 1998 Mar 10:JimMattox (Dem), nominated;MorrisL. Overstreet (Dem), defeated in primary;GeneKelly (Dem), defeated in primary. 1998 Mar 10:BarryWilliamson (Rep), advanced to runoff;JohnCornyn (Rep), advanced to runoff;TomPauken (Rep), defeated in primary. 1998 Apr 14:JohnCornyn (Rep), nominated;BarryWilliamson (Rep), defeated in primary. 1998 Nov 3:JohnCornyn (Rep), elected;JimMattox (Dem), defeated;MikeAngwin (Libertarian), defeated. 2002 Mar 12:KirkP. Watson (Dem), nominated unopposed. 2002 Mar 12:GregAbbott (Rep), nominated unopposed. 2002 Nov 5:GregAbbott (Rep), elected;KirkP. Watson (Dem), defeated;JonRoland (Libertarian), defeated;DavidCobb (Green), defeated. 2006 Nov 7:GregAbbott (Rep), elected;DavidVan Os (Dem), defeated;JonRoland (Libertarian), defeated. 2010 Nov 2:GregAbbott (Rep), elected;BarbaraAnn Radnofsky (Dem), defeated;JonRoland (Libertarian), defeated. | |
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