Post: | Attorney General |
Body: | the State of Kansas |
Insignia: | Seal of the Kansas Attorney General.svg |
Insigniacaption: | Seal of the attorney general of Kansas |
Insigniasize: | 120 |
Incumbent: | Kris Kobach |
Incumbentsince: | January 9, 2023 |
Formation: | June 30, 1854 |
The attorney general of Kansas is a statewide elected official responsible for providing legal services to the state government of Kansas.[1] [2] Kris Kobach assumed the office on January 9, 2023.[3]
Name | Term | Party | |
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Andrew Jackson Isacks | 1854–1857 | ||
William Weer | 1857–1858 | ||
Alson C. Davis | 1858–1861 |
Image | Name | Term | Party | |
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Benjamin Franklin Simpson | 1861 | Republican | ||
Charles Chadwick | 1861 | |||
Samuel Adams Stinson | 1861–1863 | Democratic | ||
Warren William Guthrie | 1863–1865 | Republican | ||
Jerome D. Brumbaugh | 1865–1867 | |||
George Henry Hoyt | 1867–1869 | |||
Addison Danford | 1869–1871 | |||
Archibald L. Williams | 1871–1875 | |||
Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph | 1875–1877 | |||
Willard Davis | 1877–1881 | |||
William Agnew Johnston | 1881–1884 | |||
George Price Smith | 1884–1885 | Democratic | ||
Simeon Briggs Bradford | 1885–1889 | Republican | ||
Lyman Beecher Kellogg | 1889–1891 | |||
John Nutt Ives | 1891–1893 | Democratic | ||
John Thomas Little | 1893–1895 | Populist | ||
Fernando Brenton Dawes | 1895–1897 | Republican | ||
Louis C. Boyle | 1897–1899 | Populist | ||
Aretas Allen Godard | 1899–1903 | Republican | ||
Chiles Crittendon Coleman | 1903–1907 | |||
Fred Schuyler Jackson | 1907–1911 | |||
John Shaw Dawson | 1911–1915 | |||
Sardius Mason Brewster | 1915–1919 | |||
Richard Joseph Hopkins | 1919–1923 | |||
Charles Benjamin Griffith | 1923–1927 | |||
William A. Smith | 1927–1930 | |||
Roland Boynton | 1930–1935 | |||
Clarence Victor Beck | 1935–1939 | |||
Jay S. Parker | 1939–1943 | |||
Alexander Baldwin Mitchell | 1943–1947 | |||
Edward F. Arn | 1947–1949 | |||
Harold Ralph Fatzer | 1949–1956 | |||
John Anderson Jr. | 1956–1961 | |||
William M. Ferguson | 1961–1965 | |||
Robert C. Londerholm | 1965–1969 | |||
Kent Frizzell | 1969–1971 | |||
Vern Miller | 1971–1975 | Democratic | ||
Curt T. Schneider | 1975–1979 | |||
Robert Stephan | 1979–1995 | Republican | ||
Carla J. Stovall | 1995–2003 | |||
Phill Kline | 2003–2007 | |||
Paul J. Morrison | 2007–2008 | Democratic | ||
Stephen Six | 2008–2011 | |||
Derek Schmidt | 2011–2023 | Republican | ||
Kris Kobach | 2023–present |