History of the Colorado Department of Law

Colorado’s Attorneys General

James E. Dalliba* — 1861-1862

Samuel E. Brown* — 1862-1865

George W. Chamberlain* — 1865-1869

Henry C. Thatcher* — 1865-1870

Lewis C. Rockwell* — 1870-1873

H.C. Alleman* — 1873-1875

Charles D. Bradley* — 1875-1876

A.J. Sampson — 1877-1878

Charles W. Wright — 1879-1880

Charles H. Toll — 1881-1882

David F. Urmy — 1883-1884

Theodore H. Thomas — 1885-1886

Alvin Marsh — 1887-1888

Samuel W. Jones — 1889-1890

Joseph H. Maupin — 1891-1892

Eugene Engley — 1893-1894

Byron L. Carr — 1895-1898

David M. Campbell — 1899-1900

Charles C. Post — 1901-1902

Nathan C. Miller — 1903-1906

William H. Dickson — 1907-1908

John T. Barnett — 1909-1910

Benjamin Griffith — 1911-1912

Fred Farrar — 1913-1916

Leslie E. Hubbard — 1917-1918

Victor E. Keyes — 1919-1922

Russel W. Fleming — 1923-1924

Wayne C. Williams — 1924-1925

William Boatright — 1925-1928

Robert E. Winbourn — 1929-1930

John S. Underwood — 1930-1931

Clarence L. Ireland — 1931-1932

Paul P. Prosser — 1933-1936

Byron G. Rogers — 1936-1940

Gail L. Ireland — 1941-1944

Lawrence H. Hinkley — 1945-1948

John W. Metzger — 1949-1950

Duke W. Dunbar —1951-1973

John P. Moore — 1973-1974

J.D. MacFarlane — 1975-1982

Duane Woodward — 1983-1991

Gale A. Norton — 1991-1999

Ken Salazar — 1999-2005

John W. Suthers — 2005-present

*Served simultaneously as Territorial Attorney General and U.S. Attorney for the Colorado Territory due to lack of funding for the territorial government.