Attorney General of New Jersey

The **attorney general of New Jersey** is a member of the executive cabinet of the state and is in charge of the Department of Law and Public Safety. The office is appointed by the governor of New Jersey, confirmed by the New Jersey Senate, and term limited.

## List

|#|Picture|Attorney General|Term in office|colspan="2"|Party affiliation|Appointed by||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||William Paterson<small>(1745–1806)</small>|<span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1776</span> – <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1783</span>|style="background:;"||Federalist|Elected by the legislature||
||Joseph Bloomfield <small>(1753–1823)</small>|<span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1783</span> – <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1792</span>||Anti-Administration|Elected by the legislature|||
||Aaron Woodruff|<span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1792</span> – <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1811</span>|style="background:;"||Federalist|Elected by the legislature||
||Andrew S. Hunter|<span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1811</span>|style="background:;"||Democratic-Republican|Elected by the legislature||
||Aaron Woodruff|<span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1812</span> – <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">June 26, 1817</span>|style="background:;"||Federalist|Elected by the legislature||
||Theodore Frelinghuysen|<span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">February 6, 1817</span> – <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">March 4, 1829</span>|style="background:;"||Federalist|Elected by the legislature||
||Samuel L. Southard|<span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1829</span> – <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1833</span>|style="background:;"||National Republican|Elected by the legislature||
||John Moore White|1833 – 1838|||Elected by the legislature|||
||Richard Stockton Field|1838 – 1841|style="background:;"||Republican|Elected by the legislature||
||George P. Mollesson|1841 – 1844|||Elected by the legislature|||
||Richard P. Thompson|1844 – 1845|||rowspan="3"|Daniel Haines||
||Abraham Browning|1845 – 1850|style="background:;"||Democratic|||
||Lucius Elmer|1850 – 1852||Democratic||||
||Richard P. Thompson|1852 – 1857|||George Franklin Fort|||
||William L. Dayton|1857 – 1861|style="background:;"||Republican|William A. Newell||
||Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen|1861 – 1867|style="background:;"||Republican|Charles Smith Olden||
||George M. Robeson|1867 – 1870|style="background:;"||Republican|Marcus Lawrence Ward||
||Robert Gilchrist Jr.|1870 – 1875|style="background:;"||Democratic|Theodore Fitz Randolph||
||Joel Parker|1875|style="background:;"||Democratic|rowspan="3"|Joseph D. Bedle|
||Jacob Vanatta|1875 – 1877||||||
||John P. Stockton|April 8, 1877 – April 5, 1897|style="background:;"||Democratic|||
||Samuel H. Grey|1897 – 1902|||John W. Griggs|||
||Thomas N. McCarter|1902 – 1903|style="background:;"||Republican|rowspan="2"|Franklin Murphy|
||Robert H. McCarter|1903 – 1908|style="background:;"||Republican|||
||Edmund Wilson Sr.|1908 – 1914|style="background:;"||Republican|John Franklin Fort||
||John Wesley Wescott|1914 – 1919|style="background:;"||Democratic|James F. Fielder||
||Thomas F. McCran|1919 – 1924|style="background:;"||Republican|Walter Evans Edge||
||Edward L. Katzenbach|1924 – 1929|||George S. Silzer|||
||William A. Stevens|1929 – 1934|||Morgan F. Larson|||
||David T. Wilentz|1934 – 1944|style="background:;"||Democratic|A. Harry Moore||
||Walter D. Van Riper|1944 – 1948|style="background:;"||Republican|Walter Evans Edge||
||Theodore D. Parsons|February 4, 1948 – 1954|||Alfred E. Driscoll|||
||Grover C. Richman Jr.|1954 – 1958|||rowspan="2"|Robert B. Meyner||
||David D. Furman|1958 – 1962||||||
||Arthur J. Sills|January 6, 1962 – 1970|||Richard J. Hughes|||
||George Francis Kugler Jr.|1970 – 1974|||William T. Cahill|||
||William F. Hyland|1974 – 1978|style="background:;"||Democratic|rowspan="3"|Brendan Byrne|
||John J. Degnan|January 17, 1978 – March 5, 1981|style="background:;"||Democratic|||
||James R. Zazzali|1981 – 1982|style="background:;"||Democratic|||
||Irwin I. Kimmelman|January 19, 1982 – January 21, 1986|style="background:;"||Republican|rowspan="3"|Thomas Kean|
||W. Cary Edwards|January 21, 1986 – January 19, 1989|style="background:;"||Republican|||
||Peter N. Perretti Jr.|February 14, 1989 – January 16, 1990||||||
||Robert Del Tufo|January 16, 1990 – August 24, 1994|style="background:;"||Democratic|Jim Florio||
||Deborah Portiz|January 18, 1994 – July 10, 1996|style="background:;"||Republican|rowspan="3"|Christine Todd Whitman|
||Peter Verniero|July 10, 1996 – May 15, 1999|style="background:;"||Republican|||
||John Farmer Jr.|June 3, 1999 – January 15, 2002|style="background:;"||Republican|||
||David Samson|January 15, 2002 – February 15, 2003|||rowspan="2"|Jim McGreevey||
||Peter C. Harvey|February 15, 2003 – January 30, 2006||Democratic||||
||Zulima Farber|January 30, 2006 – August 31, 2006|style="background:;"||Democratic|rowspan="4"|Jon Corzine|
||Anne Milgram|August 31, 2006 – September 26, 2006|style="background:;"||Democratic|||
||Stuart Rabner|September 26, 2006 – June 29, 2007|style="background:;"||Democratic|||
||Anne Milgram|June 29, 2007 – January 18, 2010|style="background:;"||Democratic|||
||Paula Dow|January 18, 2010 – January 10, 2012|style="background:;"||Democratic|rowspan="5"|Chris Christie|
||Jeffrey S. Chiesa|January 10, 2012 – June 6, 2013|style="background:;"||Republican|||
||John Jay Hoffman|June 10, 2013 – March 14, 2016|style="background:;"||Republican|||
||Robert Lougy|March 14, 2016 – June 21, 2016||||||
||Christopher Porrino|June 21, 2016 – January 16, 2018|style="background:;"||Independent|||
||Gurbir Grewal|January 16, 2018 – July 19, 2021|style="background:;"||Democratic|rowspan="4"|Phil Murphy|
||Andrew Bruck|July 19, 2021 – February 14, 2022|style="background:;"||Democratic|||
||Matt Platkin|February 14, 2022 – September 29, 2022|style="background:;"||Democratic|||
||Matt Platkin|September 29, 2022 – present|style="background:;"||Democratic|||

## Infobox (government agency)

- **agency name**: State of New Jersey Office of the Attorney General
- **logo**: Seal of the Attorney General of New Jersey.svg
- **logo width**: 150px
- **jurisdiction**: New Jersey
- **headquarters**: Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, 25 Market Street, Trenton, New Jersey
- **chief1 name**: Matthew Platkin
- **chief1 position**: Attorney General
- **parent agency**: State of New Jersey