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Attorneys-General 1823-2007

2007 - PresentJohn Hatzistergos
2000 - 2007 Robert John (Bob) Debus
1995 - 2000Jeffrey William Shaw
1992 - 1995John Planta Hannaford
1988, 1991 -1992Peter Edward James Collins
1988 - 1991John Robert Arthur Dowd
1987- 1988Ronald Joseph Mulock
1984 - 1987Terence William (Terry) Sheahan
1984 - 1984Neville Kenneth Wran
1983 - 1984Paul Landa
1976 - 1983Francis John (Frank) Walker
1975 - 1976John Clarkson Maddison
1965 - 1975Sir Kenneth Malcolm McCaw
1956 - 1965Robert Reginald Downing
1953 - 1956William Francis Sheahan
1941 - 1953Clarence Edward Martin
1932 - 1941Sir Henry Edward Manning
1932Sir Daniel Levy
1931 - 1932Joseph Lamaro
1927 - 1930Francis Stewart Boyce
1927, 1930 - 1931Andrew Augustus Lysaght
1921, 1922 - 1925Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin
1920 - 1922Sir Edward Aloysius McTiernan
1919 - 1920John Garland
1914 - 1919David Robert Hall
1910-1914William Arthur Holman
1904-1910Sir Charles Gregory Wade
1904James Conley Gannon
1899Sir George Houston Reid
1893 - 1894Charles Gilbert Heydon
1889, 1891-1893Sir Edmund Barton
1887-1888, 1899 - 1904Bernhard Ringrose Wise
1885 - 1886, 1888 -1889, 1889 -1891, 1894 Sir George Bowen Simpson
1885, 1886 - 1887, 1894 - 1898, 1898 -1899John Henry Want
1879 - 1883Sir Robert Wisdom
1877- 1878, 1887William John Foster
1877, 1878 - 1879Sir William Charles Windeyer
1875 - 1877, 1883 - 1885William Bede Dalley
1873 - 1875Sir Joseph George Long Innes
1872 - 1873Edward Butler
1836 - 1856, 1865 - 1866John Hubert Plunkett
1860 - 1863John Fletcher Hargrave
1859 - 1860Edward Wise
1859Sir Lyttelton Holysake Bayley
1858 - 1859Alfred James Peter Lutwyche
1857, 1863, 1865Sir John Bayley Darvall
1856, 1857 - 1858, 1863 - 1865, 1866 - 1868, 1870 -1872Sir James Martin
1856 - 1857, 1860, 1868 - 1870Sir William Montagu Manning
1841 - 1843Roger Therry (Acting)
1836 - 1856John Hubert Plunkett
1830 - 1836John Kinchella
1826 - 1830Alexander McDuff Baxter
1826William Henry Moore
1823 - 1826Saxe Bannister

Heads of the Attorney General's Department (after amalgamation with the Department of Justice in 1901)

1992 - to dateLaurence Geoffrey (Laurie) Glanfield, AM
1978 - 1991Trevor William Haines, AO
1965 - 1978Leslie Kenneth Downs
1956 - 1964Simpson Wallace Ramsay
1945 - 1956Roy Walter Strong Kelly
1936 - 1945Melville Charles Nott
1933 - 1935William Butler Geddes
1924 - 1933William James Kessell
1921 - 1924David Ross Jamieson
1919 - 1921George Whitfield (also Acting 1916 - 1919)
1905 - 1919James Leslie Williams
1901 - 1904George Miller

Undersecretaries Attorney General's Department 1875 - 1901

1896 - 1901Hugh Pollock
1880 - 1896William Wilberforce Stephen
1878 - 1880George Houston Reid
1875 - 1878Alexander Greville

Undersecretaries Department of Justice 1873 - 1901

1896 - 1901George Miller
1887 - 1896Archibald Colquhoun Fraser
1873 - 1887William Edmond Plunkett




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