Maine Attorney General

The Maine Attorney General is the legal advisor and prosecutor for the state of Maine . The office is governed by Article IX, Section 11 of the Maine Constitution . The Attorney General is elected at the beginning of the first session of the new Maine Legislature for a two-year term, along with the other Maine constitutional offices.

The powers of the Maine Attorney General are derived from the Maine Revised Statues Annotated , Section 5, Chapter 9. This includes the representation of the state in civil actions , investigation and prosecution of homicide , advising the district attorneys and the provision of written opinions on legal questions at the request of the governor or the legislature. The attorney general has the right to appoint assistant attorneys-general and assistants at will.

List of Maine Attorney General

Term of office	Secretary of State	image	Party affiliation
1820-1831	Erastus Foote		Democratic Republican
1832-1833	Jonathan P. Rogers		democrat
1834-1837	Nathan Clifford		democrat
1838	Daniel Goodenow		National Republican
1839-1840	Stephen Emery		democrat
1841	Daniel Goodenow	National Republican	National Republican
1842-1843	Otis L. Bridges		democrat
1844-1847	Wyman Bradbury Seavy Moor		democrat
1848	Samuel Blake		democrat
1849-1852	Henry Tallman		democrat
1853-1854	George Evans		Whig
1855	John S. Abbott		republican
1856	George Evans		Whig
1857-1859	Nathan D. Appleton		Whig
1860	GW Ingersoll		Whig
1860-1863	Josiah Hayden Drummond		Democrat; Republican from 1855
1864-1866	John A. Peters		republican
1867-1869	William P. Frye		republican
1870-1872	Thomas Brackett Reed		republican
1873-1875	Harris M. Plaisted		republican
1876-1878	Lucilius A. Emery		republican
1879	William H. McLellan		democrat
1880-1884	Henry B. Cleaves		republican
1885-1888	Orville D. Baker		republican
1889-1892	Charles E. Littlefield		republican
1893-1896	Frederick A. Powers		republican
1897-1900	William Haines (politician)		republican
1901-1904	George M. Seiders		republican
1905-1908	Hannibal Emery Hamlin		republican
1909-1910	Warren C. Philbrook		republican
1911	Cyrus R. Tupper		democrat
1911-1912	William Robinson Pattangall		First a Democrat, later a Republican
1913-1914	Scott Wilson		republican
1915-1916	William Robinson Pattangall		First a Democrat, later a Republican
1917-1920	Guy H. Sturgis		republican
1921-1924	Ransford W. Shaw		republican
1925-1928	Raymond Fellows		republican
1929-1932	Clement F. Robinson		republican
1933-1936	Clyde R. Chapman		republican
1937-1940	Franz U. Burkett		republican
1941-1944	Frank I. Cowan		republican
1945-1950	Ralph W. Farris		republican
1951-1954	Alexander A. LaFleur		republican
1955-1958	Frank F. Harding		republican
1959-1964	Frank E. Hancock		republican
1965-1966	Richard J. Dubord		democrat
1967-1971	James Erwin		republican
1972-1975	Jon A. Lund		republican
1975-1979	Joseph E. Brennan		democrat
1979-1981	Richard S. Cohen		republican
1981-1991	James Tierney		democrat
1991-1995	Michael E. Carpenter		democrat
1995-2001	Andrew Ketterer		democrat
2001-2009	G. Steven Rowe		democrat
2009-2011	Janet T. Mills		democrat
2011-2013	William Schneider		republican
2013–	Janet T. Mills		democrat