List of Attorneys General of Missouri

Seal of the Attorney General of Missouri

The individuals listed below have all served in the position of Attorney General of Missouri.

#	Name	Party	Term	County
1	Edward Bates	Democratic-Republican	1820–1821	St. Louis
2	Rufus Easton	Democratic-Republican	1821–1826	St. Louis
3	Robert William Wells	Democrat	1826–1836	St. Charles
4	William Barclay Napton	Democrat	1836–1839	Howard
5	Samuel Mansfield Bay	Democrat	1839–1845	Cole
6	Benjamin F. Stringfellow	Democrat	1845–1849	Chariton
7	William A. Robards	Democrat	1849–1851	Boone
8	James B. Gardenhire	Whig	1851–1857	Buchanan
9	Ephraim B. Ewing	Democrat	1857–1858	Ray
10	J. Proctor Knott	Democrat	1858–1861	Scotland
11	Aikman Welch	Democrat	1861–1864	Johnson
12	Thomas Theodore Crittenden	Democrat	1864	Johnson
13	Robert Franklin Wingate	Democrat	1865–1869	St. Louis
14	Horace B. Johnson	Republican	1869–1871	Cole
15	Andrew Jackson Baker	Republican	1871–1872	Schuyler
16	Henry Clay Ewing	Democrat	1873–1875	Cole
17	John A. Hockaday	Democrat	1875–1877	Callaway
18	Jackson Leonidas Smith	Democrat	1877–1881	Cole
19	Daniel Harrison McIntyre	Democrat	1881–1885	Audrain
20	Banton Gallitin Boone	Democrat	1885–1889	Henry
21	John M. Wood	Democrat	1889–1893	Clark
22	Robert Franklin Walker	Democrat	1893–1897	Morgan
23	Edward Coke Crow	Democrat	1897–1905	Jasper
24	Herbert S. Hadley	Republican	1905–1909	Jackson
25	Elliot Woolfolk Major	Democrat	1909–1913	Pike
26	John Tull Barker	Democrat	1913–1917	Macon
27	Frank Winton McAllister	Democrat	1917–1921	Monroe
28	Jesse W. Barrett	Republican	1921–1925	Lewis
29	Robert William Otto	Republican	1925	Franklin
30	North Todd Gentry	Republican	1925–1928	Boone
31	Stratton Shartel	Republican	1928–1933	Newton
32	Roy McKittrick	Democrat	1933–1945	Chariton
33	Jonathan E. "Buck" Taylor	Democrat	1945–1953	Livingston
34	John M. Dalton	Democrat	1953–1961	Dunklin
35	Thomas Eagleton	Democrat	1961–1965	St. Louis City
36	Norman H. Anderson	Democrat	1965–1969	St. Louis
37	John Danforth	Republican	1969–1977	St. Louis, Cole
38	John Ashcroft	Republican	1977–1985	Greene
39	William L. Webster	Republican	1985–1993	Jasper
40	Jay Nixon	Democrat	1993–2009	Jefferson
41	Chris Koster	Democrat	2009–	Cass

References

• Official Manual, State of Missouri, 2005-2006.