Michigan Attorney General

The **attorney general of the State of Michigan** is the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. state of Michigan.

The officeholder is elected statewide in the November general election alongside the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, members of the Senate and members of the House of Representatives.

Michigan's current attorney general is Democrat Dana Nessel since 2019.

## List of attorneys general of Michigan

|colspan="2"|Attorney General|In office|Political party|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Daniel LeRoy|1836–1837||
||Peter Morey|1837–1841|Democratic|
||Zephaniah Platt|1841–1843|Whig|
||Elon Farnsworth|1843–1845|Democratic|
||Henry N. Walker|1845–1847|Democratic|
||Edward Mundy|1847–1848|Democratic|
||George V. N. Lothrop|1848–1851|Democratic|
||William Hale|1851–1855|Democratic|
||Jacob M. Howard|1855–1860|Republican|
||Charles Upson|1861–1863|Republican|
||Albert Williams|1863–1867||
||William L. Stoughton|1867–1869|Republican|
||Dwight May|1869–1873||
||Byron D. Ball|1873–1874|Republican|
||Isaac Marston|1874–1875||
||Andrew J. Smith|1875–1877||
||Otto Kirchner|1877–1881|Republican|
||Jacob J. Van Riper|1881–1885||
||Moses Taggart|1885–1889|Republican|
||Stephen V. R. Trowbridge|1889–1890||
||Benjamin W. Huston|1890|Republican|
||Adolphus A. Ellis|1891–1895|Democratic|
||Fred A. Maynard|1895–1899||
||Horace M. Oren|1899–1903||
||Charles A. Blair|1903–1905||
||John E. Bird|1905–1910||
||Franz C. Kuhn|1910–1912|Republican|
||Roger I. Wykes|1912|Republican|
||Grant Fellows|1913–1917|Republican|
||Alex J. Groesbeck|1917–1921|Republican|
||Merlin Wiley|1921–1923|Republican|
||Andrew B. Dougherty|1923–1926|Republican|
||Clare Retan|1926|Republican|
||William W. Potter|1927–1929|Republican|
||Wilber M. Brucker|1929–1931|Republican|
||Paul W. Voorhies|1931–1933|Republican|
||Patrick H. O'Brien|1933–1935|Democratic|
||Harry S. Toy|1935|Republican|
||David H. Crowley|1935–1937|Republican|
||Raymond Wesley Starr|1937–1939||
||Thomas Read|1939-1940|Republican|
||Herbert J. Rushton|1941–1944|Republican|
||John R. Dethmers|1945–1946|Republican|
||Foss O. Eldred|1946|Republican|
||Eugene F. Black|1947–1949|Republican|
||Stephen John Roth|1949–1951||
||Frank Millard|1951–1955|Republican|
||Thomas M. Kavanagh|1955–1957|Democratic|
||Paul L. Adams|1957–1961|Democratic|
||Frank J. Kelley|1961–1999|Democratic|
||Jennifer Granholm|1999–2003|Democratic|
||Mike Cox|2003–2011|Republican|
||Bill Schuette|2011–2019|Republican|
||Dana Nessel|2019–present|Democratic|

## Other websites

- Michigan Manual 2003-2004, Chapter IV, Former Officials of Michigan)/documents/publications/manual/2003-2004/2003-mm-0510-0519-Former.pdf)

## Infobox (official post)

- **post**: Attorney General
- **body**: the State of Michigan
- **insignia**: Seal of Michigan Attorney General.svg
- **insigniasize**: 150px
- **insigniacaption**: Seal of the attorney general
- **image**: Dana Nessel Michigan Is Preparing for 'Every Scenario' on Election Day THE CIRCUS SHOWTIME 0-25 screenshot (cropped).jpg
- **incumbent**: Dana Nessel
- **incumbentsince**: January 1, 2019
- **department**: Michigan Department of Attorney General
- **governor**: Gretchen Whitmer
- **style**: The Honorable
- **residence**: Private
- **appointer**: Popular Election
- **termlength**: 4 Years, Renewable Once
- **formation**: 1837
- **inaugural**: Daniel LeRoy