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About the Fifty States
Attorneys General
Updated 6/16/2008

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		Attorneys General
State		Name & Party		Selection Method	Next Election
Alabama		Troy King	R	Elected	11/02/10
Alaska		Talis Colberg	R	Appointed by Governor	Term at discretion of Governor
Arizona		Terry Goddard	D	Elected	11/02/10
Arkansas		Dustin McDaniel	D	Elected	11/02/10
California		Jerry Brown	D	Elected	11/02/10
Colorado		John Suthers	R	Elected	11/02/10
Connecticut		Richard Blumenthal	D	Elected	11/02/10
Delaware		Joseph R. "Beau" Biden, III	D	Elected	11/02/10
Florida		Bill McCollum	R	Elected	11/02/10
Georgia		Thurbert E. Baker	D	Elected	11/02/10
Hawaii		Mark J. Bennett	R	Appointed by Governor	Term Expires 12/10
Idaho		Lawrence Wasden	R	Elected	11/02/10
Illinois		Lisa Madigan	D	Elected	11/02/10
Indiana		Steve Carter	R	Elected	11/04/08
Iowa		Tom Miller	D	Elected	11/02/10
Kansas		Stephen Six	D	Elected	11/02/10
Kentucky		Jack Conway	D	Elected	11/08/11
Louisiana		James "Buddy" Caldwell	D	Elected	10/22/11 - Open Primary
Maine		G. Steven Rowe	D	Elected by State Legislature	Term Expires 01/09
Maryland		Douglas Gansler	D	Elected	11/02/10
Massachusetts		Martha Coakley	D	Elected	11/02/10
Michigan		Mike Cox	R	Elected	11/02/10
Minnesota		Lori Swanson	DFL	Elected	11/02/10
Mississippi		Jim Hood	D	Elected	11/08/11
Missouri		Jeremiah W. "Jay" Nixon	D	Elected	11/04/08
Montana		Mike McGrath	D	Elected	11/04/08
Nebraska		Jon Bruning	R	Elected	11/02/10
Nevada		Catherine Cortez Masto	D	Elected	11/02/10
New Hampshire		Kelly Ayotte	R	Appointed by Governor	Term at discretion of Governor
New Jersey		Anne Milgram	D	Appointed by Governor	11/03/09
New Mexico		Gary King	D	Elected	11/02/10
New York		Andrew Cuomo	D	Elected	11/02/10
North Carolina		Roy Cooper	D	Elected	11/04/08
North Dakota		Wayne Stenehjem	R	Elected	11/02/10
Ohio		Nancy Hardin Rogers (Interim)	D	Elected	11/04/08
Oklahoma		W.A. Drew Edmondson	D	Elected	11/02/10
Oregon		Hardy Myers	D	Elected	11/04/08
Pennsylvania		Tom Corbett	R	Elected	11/04/08
Rhode Island		Patrick Lynch	D	Elected	11/02/10
South Carolina		Henry McMaster	R	Elected	11/02/10
South Dakota		Larry Long	R	Elected	11/02/10
Tennessee		Robert E. Cooper, Jr.	D	Appointed by Supreme Court	Term Expires 11/01/14
Texas		Greg Abbott	R	Elected	11/02/10
Utah		Mark Shurtleff	R	Elected	11/04/08
Vermont		William H. Sorrell	D	Elected	11/04/08
Virginia		Bob McDonnell	R	Elected	11/03/09
Washington		Rob McKenna	R	Elected	11/04/08
West Virginia		Darrell V. McGraw, Jr.	D	Elected	11/04/08
Wisconsin		J.B. Van Hollen	R	Elected	11/02/10
Wyoming		Bruce A. Salzburg	D	Appointed by Governor	Term at discretion of Governor