Ohio Attorney General

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The Ohio Attorney General is one of the constitutional offices of the state of Ohio . The current incumbent is Mike DeWine , who took up his post in January 2011.

history

The office of Attorney General in Ohio was created in 1846 by the Ohio General Assembly . At that time, his responsibilities included providing legal advice to the state government, representing the state in legal disputes and advising state prosecutors. Originally the Attorney General was appointed by the Legislature. With the passage of the Second Ohio Constitution in 1851, it was determined that the future Attorney General would be elected by the eligible population of Ohio. The duties of the Attorney General were kept very general at that time.

In 1952, the Ohio General Assembly expanded the attorney general's duties to include charitable trust trustees and legal advice to other government agencies. It was also determined that the Attorney General can only be prosecuted if the Ohio Governor so requests in writing. In 1954 the term of office was increased from two to four years.

Nancy H. Rogers was appointed Attorney General in 2008 to fill the vacancy created by Marc Dann's resignation . In the same year, 2008, a by-election was held in Ohio to find a permanent replacement. The then Ohio State Treasurer Richard Cordray went out of the race as the winner. He beat Michael Crites (R) and Robert M. Owens (I).

The Solicitor General of Ohio is the chief appellate attorney in the Attorney General's office.

In November 2014, Attorney General Mike DeWine secured $ 22 million in a settlement with the credit score company ScoreSense, a subsidiary of One Technologies. DeWine, along with Illinois Attorney General , Lisa Madigan , and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had filed civil suits against the company. Ohio consumers and the state government will receive a portion of the settlement amount. The FTC stated the following in 2014:

"[One Technologies] lured customers with" free access "to their credit scores and then billed them a recurring fee of $ 29.95 per month ..."

"[One Technologies] enticed customers with" free access "to their credit scores and then charged them a recurring fee of $ 29.95 per month ..."

Over 200,000 consumers had filed complaints against the company.

List of Ohio Attorney Generals

#	Attorney General	Term of office	Party affiliation
1	Henry Stanbery	1846-1851	Whig
2	Joseph McCormick	1851-1852	democrat
3	George E. Pugh	1852-1854	democrat
4th	George Wythe McCook	1854-1856	democrat
5	Francis D. Kimball	1856	republican
6th	Christopher Wolcott	1856-1861	republican
7th	James Murray	1861-1863	republican
8th	Lyman R. Critchfield	1863-1865	democrat
9	William P. Richardson	1865	unionist
10	Chauncey N. Olds	1865-1866	republican
11	William H. West	1866-1870	republican
12	Francis Bates Pond	1870-1874	republican
13	John Little	1874-1878	republican
14th	Isaiah Pillars	1878-1880	democrat
15th	George K. Nash	1880-1883	republican
16	David Hollingsworth	1883-1884	republican
17th	James Lawrence	1884-1886	democrat
18th	Jacob A. Kohler	1886-1888	republican
19th	David K. Watson	1888-1892	republican
20th	John K. Richards	1892-1896	republican
21st	Frank S. Monnett	1896-1900	republican
22nd	John M. Sheets	1900-1904	republican
23	Wade H. Ellis	1904-1908	republican
24	Ulysses G. Denman	1908-1911	republican
25th	Timothy Sylvester Hogan	1911-1915	democrat
26th	Edward C. Turner	1915-1917	republican
27	Joseph McGhee	1917-1919	democrat
28	John G. Price	1919-1923	republican
29	Charles C. Crabbe	1923-1927	republican
30th	Edward C. Turner	1927-1929	republican
31	Gilbert Bettman	1929-1933	republican
32	John W. Bricker	1933-1937	republican
33	Herbert S. Duffy	1937-1939	democrat
34	Thomas J. Herbert	1939-1945	republican
35	Hugh S. Jenkins	1945-1949	republican
36	Herbert S. Duffy	1949-1951	democrat
37	C. William O'Neill	1951-1957	republican
38	William B. Saxbe	1957-1959	republican
39	Mark McElroy	1959-1963	democrat
40	William B. Saxbe	1963-1969	republican
41	Paul W. Brown	1969-1971	republican
42	William J. Brown	1971-1983	democrat
43	Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr.	1983-1991	democrat
44	Lee Fisher	1991-1995	democrat
45	Betty Montgomery	1995-2003	republican
46	Jim Petro	2003-2007	republican
47	Marc Then	2007-2008	democrat
48	Nancy H. Rogers	2008-2009	Democrat
49	Richard Cordray	2009-2011	democrat
50	Mike DeWine	since 2011	republican