The Political Graveyard: Delaware: State Attorneys General (original) (raw)

Delaware State Attorneys General, 1784-2020 (May be incomplete!)
Gunning Bedford, Jr. 1784-90Nicholas Ridgely 1790-1801Nicholas Van Dyke 1801-06Outerbridge Horsey 1806-10Thomas Clayton 1810-15James Rogers 1815-30Robert Frame 1830-35James Rogers 1835-40Edward W. Gilpin 1840-50Willard Saulsbury, Sr. 1850-55George P. Fisher 1855-60Alfred Wooten 1860-64Jacob Moore 1864-69Charles B. Lore 1869-74John B. Penington 1874-79George Gray 1879-85John H. Paynter 1885-87John Biggs 1887-92John R. Nicholson 1892-95Robert C. White 1895-1901Herbert H. Ward 1901-05Robert H. Richards 1905-09Andrew C. Gray 1909-13Josiah O. Wolcott 1913-17David J. Reinhardt 1917-21Sylvester D. Townsend, Jr. 1921-25Clarence A. Southerland 1925-29Reuben Satterthwaite, Jr. 1929-33Daniel J. Layton 1933P. Warren Green 1933-39James R. Morford 1939-43Clair J. Killoran 1943-47Albert W. James 1947-51H. Albert Young 1951-55Joseph Donald Craven 1955-59Januar D. Bove, Jr. 1959-63David P. Buckson 1963-71W. Laird Stabler, Jr. 1971-75Richard R. Wier, Jr. 1975-79Richard S. Gebelein 1979-83Charles M. Oberly III 1983-94M. Jane Brady 1994-2007Beau Biden 2007-15Matthew P. Denn 2015-19Kathy Jennings 2019-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

• 1904: L. Irving Handy (Dem), defeated.
• 1920 Nov 2: Sylvester D. Townsend, Jr. (Rep), elected;William T. Lynam (Dem), defeated.
• 1924: Wilbur L. Adams (Dem), defeated.
• 1933 Jul 6: P. Warren Green, appointed.
• 1934: P. Warren Green (Rep), elected.
• 1942 Nov 3: Clair J. Killoran (Rep), elected;Houston Wilson (Dem), defeated.
• 1946 Nov 5: Albert W. James (Rep), elected;Daniel F. Wolcott (Dem), defeated.
• 1950 Nov 7: H. Albert Young (Rep), elected;Thomas Cooch (Dem), defeated.
• 1958 Nov 4: Januar D. Bove, Jr. (Rep), elected;Michael A. Poppiti (Dem), defeated.
• 1970 Nov 3: W. Laird Stabler, Jr. (Rep), elected;Andrew Moore (Dem), defeated.
• 1982 Nov 2: Charles M. Oberly III (Dem), elected;Richard S. Gebelein (Rep), defeated;Vernon Luther Etzel (Libertarian), defeated;Traves V. Brownlee (American), defeated.
• 1998 Sep 12: John T. Dorsey (Dem), nominated;David L. Finger (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 1998 Sep 12: M. Jane Brady (Rep), nominated unopposed.
• 1998 Nov 3: M. Jane Brady (Rep), elected;John T. Dorsey (Dem), defeated.
• 2002 Nov 5: M. Jane Brady (Rep), elected;Carl Schnee (Dem), defeated;Vivian Houghton (Green), defeated.
• 2006 Nov 7: Beau Biden (Dem), elected;Ferris W. Wharton (Rep), defeated.
• 2010 Nov 2: Beau Biden (Dem), elected;Doug Campbell (Ind), defeated;David C. Graham, defeated.
• 2014 Nov 4: Matthew P. Denn (Dem), elected;Theodore A. Kittila (Rep), defeated;Catherine Damavandi (Green), defeated;David C. Graham (Ind), defeated;John Machurek (Libertarian), defeated.
• 2018 Sep 6: Kathy Jennings (Dem), nominated;LaKresha Roberts (Dem), defeated in primary;Christopher Johnson (Dem), defeated in primary;Timothy P. Mullaney, Sr. (Dem), defeated in primary.
• 2018 Nov 6: Kathy Jennings (Dem), elected;Bernard Pepukayi (Rep), defeated.

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