Mississippi Attorney General


The Attorney General of Mississippi is the chief legal officer of the state and serves as the state's lawyer. Only the Attorney General can bring or defend a lawsuit on behalf of the state.
The Attorney General is elected statewide for a four-year term with no term limits. The qualification for office is that one must be qualified elector, at least 26 years of ages, a practicing attorney for 5 years, and a citizen of the state for 5 years before the date of election.
All Attorneys General from 1878 to 2020 were Democrats.

List of Attorneys General

NameTermParty
Lyman Harding1818–1820Democrat-Republican
Edward Turner1820–1821Democrat-Republican
Thomas Buck Reed1821–1825Democrat-Republican
Richard Stockton1825–1828Jacksonian
George Adams1828–1829Jacksonian
Robert H. Buckner1829–1830Democrat
R.M. Gaines1830–1834Democrat
M.D. Patton1834–1837Democrat
T.F. Collins1837–1841Democrat
John D. Freeman1841–1850Democrat
David C. Glenn1850–1857Democrat
T.J. Wharton1857–1865Democrat
Charles E. Hooker1865–1868Democrat
Jasper Myers1868–1870Democrat
Joshua S. Morris1870–1874Democrat
George E. Harris1874–1878Republican
Thomas C. Catchings1878–1885Democrat
Thomas S. Ford1885–1886Democrat
T. Marshall Miller1886–1893Democrat
Frank Johnston1893–1896Democrat
Wiley N. Nash1896–1900Democrat
Monroe McClurg1900–1903Democrat
William Williams1903–1907Democrat
Robert Virgil Fletcher1907–1908Democrat
J. Bowman Sterling1908–1910Democrat
Shepherd Spencer Hudson1910–1912Democrat
Ross A. Collins1912–1920Democrat
Frank Roberson1920–1923Democrat
C.D. Potter1923–1924Democrat
Rush Hightower Knox1924–1928Democrat
George T. Mitchell1928–1932Democrat
Greek Lent Rice1932–1950Democrat
James P. Coleman1950–1956Democrat
Joseph Turner Patterson1956–1969Democrat
A. F. Summer1969–1980Democrat
William Allain1980–1984Democrat
Edwin L. Pittman1984–1988Democrat
Mike Moore1988–2004Democrat
Jim Hood2004–2020Democrat
Lynn Fitch2020–presentRepublican