Augustus L. Hart, 13th Attorney General

Born in Indiana on October 15, 1849. Hart emphasized that a proper defense of the rights of the people of the State of California was dependent upon equal protection of the law. He claimed California’s destiny is immortality "if she will ever maintain the rights of the poor as the rights of the rich; will ever look to the interest of the laboring classes, the men whose property, though small in degree to them, are equal to those of the richer classes.

She will maintain their rights and will maintain the rights of the agriculturalists, maintain the rights of the mechanics, the farmers, the lawyers and all-extending equality to all her people the entire extent of her domain...." Died in Livermore, CA in 1901.

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Rob Bonta Apr. 2021 - Present
Xavier Becerra Jan. 2017 - Mar. 2021
Kamala D. Harris Jan. 2011 - Jan. 2017
Edmund G. Brown Jr. Jan. 2007 - Jan. 2011
Bill Lockyer Jan. 1999 - Jan. 2007
Daniel E. Lungren Jan. 1991 - Jan. 1999
John K. Van de Kamp Jan. 1983 - Jan. 1991
George Deukmejian Jan. 1979 - Jan. 1983
Evelle J. Younger Jan. 1971 - Jan. 1979
Thomas C. Lynch Sep. 1964 - Jan. 1971
Stanley Mosk Jan. 1959 - Sep. 1964
Edmund G. Brown Sr. Jan. 1951 - Jan. 1959
Frederick N. Howser Jan. 1947 - Jan. 1951
Robert W. Kenny Jan. 1943 - Jan. 1947
Earl Warren Jan. 1939 - Jan. 1943
Ulysses S. Webb Sep. 1902 - Jan. 1939
Tirey L. Ford Jan. 1899 - Sep. 1902
William F. Fitzgerald Jan. 1895 - Jan. 1899
William H. H. Hart Jan. 1891 - Jan. 1895
George A. Johnson Jan. 1887 - Jan. 1891
Edward C. Marshall Jan. 1883 - Jan. 1887
Augustus L. Hart Jan. 1880 - Jan. 1883
Jo Hamilton Dec. 1875 - Jan. 1880
John Lord Love Dec. 1871 - Dec. 1875
Jo Hamilton Dec. 1867 - Dec. 1871
John C. McCullough Dec. 1863 - Dec. 1867
Frank M. Pixley Jan. 1862 - Dec. 1863
Thomas H. Williams Jan. 1858 - Jan. 1862
William T. Wallace Jan. 1856 - Jan. 1858
William M. Stewart Jun. 1854 - (Temporary)
John R. McConnell Jan. 1854 - Jan. 1856
S. Clinton Hastings Jan. 1852 - Jan. 1854
James A. McDougall Oct. 1850 - Dec. 1851
Edward J. C. Kewen Dec. 1849 - Aug. 1850

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Augustus L. Hart, 13th Attorney General