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Historical List of U.S. Attorneys

Historical List of U.S. Attorneys for the Western District of Pennsylvania:

United States Attorney Date Appointed
James Hamilton March 11, 1801
Andrew Stewart April 20, 1818
Alexander Brackenridge March 3, 1821
George W. Buchanan October 22, 1830
Benjamin Patton, Jr. October 22, 1832
John P. Anderson June 12, 1839
Cornelius Darragh March 25, 1841
William O'Hara Robinson March 29, 1844
John L. Dawson July 22, 1845
J. Bowman Sweitzer August 27, 1850
Charles Shaler April 19, 1853
Richard Biddle Roberts April 21, 1857
Robert B. Carnahan April 12, 1861
Henry B. Swope January 24, 1870
David Reed March 24, 1874
Henry H. McCormick June 29, 1876
William A. Stone July 6, 1880
George A. Allen December 4, 1886
Walter Lyon End of
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June 21, 1889
Stephen C. McCandless April 26, 1893
Harry Alvan Hall June 8, 1893
Daniel B. Heiner September 14, 1897
James S. Young February 10, 1902
John W. Dunkle March 17, 1905
John H. Jordan April 15, 1909
Edwin Lowry Humes September 10, 1913
R. Lindsay Crawford September 2, 1918
Edwin Lowry Humes August 20, 1919
Robert J. Dodds June 1, 1920
D. J. Driscoll August 19, 1920
Walter Lyon March 11, 1921
John D. Meyer July 18, 1925
Louis Edward Graham October 31, 1929
Horatio S. Dumbauld August 17, 1933
Charles F. Uhl May 12, 1941
Owen McIntosh Burns May 16, 1947
Edward C. Boyle November 3, 1949
John W. McIlvaine July 16, 1953
D. Malcolm Anderson, Jr. August 19, 1955
Hubert I. Teitelbaum March 17, 1958
Joseph S. Ammerman June 5, 1961
Gustave Diamond February 2, 1963
Richard L. Thornburgh June 4, 1969
Blair A. Griffith July 7, 1975
Robert J. Cindrich September 29, 1978
J. Alan Johnson July 31, 1981
Charles D. Sheehy January 15, 1989
Thomas W. Corbett, Jr. November 30, 1989
Frederick W. Thieman August 16, 1993
Linda L. Kelly August 1, 1997
Harry Litman October 22, 1998
Linda L. Kelly April 28, 2001
Mary Beth Buchanan September 18, 2001
Robert S. Cessar November 17, 2009
David J. Hickton August 12, 2010
Soo C. Song November 29, 2016
Scott W. Brady December 22, 2017
Stephen R. Kaufman February 28, 2021
Cindy K. Chung November 23, 2021
Troy Rivetti February 17, 2023
Eric G. Olshan June 12, 2023
Updated March 27, 2024