Territorial attorneys general: Lorenso A. Babcock, 1849-1853; Lafayette Emmett, 1853-1858
State attorneys general: Charles H. Berry, 1858-1860; Gordon E. Cole, 1860-1866; William Colville, 1866-1868; F. R. E. Cornell, 1868-1874; George P. Wilson, 1874-1880; Charles M. Start, 1880-1881; William John Hahn, 1881-1887; Moses E. Clapp, 1887-1893; Henry Warren Childs, 1893-1899; Wallace Barton Douglas, 1899-1904; William J. Donahower, 1904-1905; Edward T. Young, 1905-1909; George T. Simpson, 1909-1912; Lyndon A. Smith, 1912-1918; Clifford L. Hilton, 1918-1927; Albert F. Pratt, 1927-1928; G. Aaron Youngquist, 1928-1929; Henry N. Benson, 1929-1933; Harry H. Peterson, 1933-1936; William S. Ervin, 1936-1939; Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist, 1939-1955; Miles Lord, 1955-1960; Walter F. Mondale, 1960-1964; Robert W. Mattson, 1964-1966; Douglas M. Head, 1967-1970; Warren Spannaus, 1971-1982; Hubert H. (Skip) Humphrey, III, 1983-1998; Mike Hatch, 1999-2006; Lori Swanson, 2007-2018; Keith Ellison, 2019-