title: Indiana Attorney General
text: # Indiana Attorney General
  
  The Indiana Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the State of Indiana in the United States. Attorneys General are chosen by a statewide general election to serve for a four-year term. The forty-fourth and current Attorney General is Todd Rokita.
  
  ## List of Indiana Attorneys General
  
  ### Territorial
  
  | Attorney General | Political Party | Term of Service |
  | - | - | - |
  | Benjamin Parke | | 1804–1808 |
  | John Rice Jones | | 1808–1816 |
  
  ### State
  
  Under the 1816 Constitution of Indiana the office of Attorney General was filled by appointment. After the adoption of the 1851 constitution, the office was filled by popular election.
  
  **Parties**
  
  Democratic (19)  Republican (25)
  
  | Attorney General | Political Party | Term of Service |
  | - | - | - |
  | James Morrison | Republican | 1855–1856 |
  | Joseph E. McDonald | Democratic | 1856–1860 |
  | James G. Jones | Republican | 1860–1861 |
  | John Palmer Usher | Republican | 1861–1862 |
  | John F. Kibbey | Republican | 1862 |
  | Oscar B. Hord | Democratic | 1862–1864 |
  | Delano E. Williamson | Republican | 1864–1870 |
  | Bayless W. Hanna | Democratic | 1870–1872 |
  | James C. Denny | Republican | 1872–1874 |
  | Clarence A. Buskirk | Democratic | 1874–1878 |
  | Thomas W. Woollen | Democratic | 1878 –1880 |
  | Daniel P. Baldwin | Republican | 1880–1882 |
  | Francis T. Hord | Democratic | 1882–1886 |
  | Louis T. Michener | Republican | 1886–1890 |
  | Alonzo G. Smith | Democratic | 1890–1894 |
  | William A. Ketcham | Republican | 1894–1898 |
  | William L. Taylor | Republican | 1898–1903 |
  | Charles W. Miller | Republican | 1903–1907 |
  | James Bingham | Republican | 1907–1911 |
  | Thomas M. Honan | Democratic | 1911–1915 |
  | Richard M. Milburn | Democratic | 1915 |
  | Evan B. Stotsenburg | Democratic | 1915–1917 |
  | Ele Stansbury | Republican | 1917–1921 |
  | U. S. Lesh | Republican | 1921–1925 |
  | Arthur L. Gilliom | Republican | 1925–1929 |
  | James M. Ogden | Republican | 1929–1933 |
  | Philip Lutz, Jr. | Democratic | 1933–1937 |
  | Omer Stokes Jackson | Democratic | 1937–1940 |
  | Samuel D. Jackson | Democratic | 1940–1941 |
  | George N. Beamer | Democratic | 1941–1943 |
  | James Emmert | Republican | 1943–1947 |
  | Cleon H. Foust | Republican | 1947–1949 |
  | J. Emmett McManamon | Democratic | 1949–1953 |
  | Edwin K. Steers | Republican | 1953–1965 |
  | John J. Dillon | Democratic | 1965–1969 |
  | Theodore L. Sendak | Republican | 1969–1981 |
  | Linley E. Pearson | Republican | 1981–1993 |
  | Pamela L. Carter | Democratic | 1993–1997 |
  | Jeffrey A. Modisett | Democratic | 1997–2000 |
  | Karen Freeman-Wilson | Democratic | 2000–2001 |
  | Steve Carter | Republican | 2001–2009 |
  | Greg Zoeller | Republican | 2009–2017 |
  | Curtis Hill | Republican | 2017–2021 |
  | Todd Rokita | Republican | 2021-present |
  