Texas Attorney General

Attorney General of Texas
Incumbent Ken Paxton since January 5, 2015
Office of the Attorney General Texas Department of Criminal Justice Texas Executive Branch Texas Cabinet
Style	Attorney General The Honorable
Seat	Austin, Texas
Term length	Four years, no term limit
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Texas
Inaugural holder	Volney E. Howard
Formation	1846
Website	oag.state.tx.us

The Attorney General of Texas is the state attorney general of the state government of the U.S. state of Texas. The attorney general is also the chief legal officer and the head of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He/she carries out official duties and responsibilities of the office through the Office of the Attorney General.

The state attorney general is elected to a four-year term. This does not have term limits. The election is held at the same statewide election as the governor, lieutenant governor, etc.

Ken Paxton is the current Attorney General of Texas, in office since January 2015 under Governor Greg Abbott.

Officeholders

Attorneys general by party affiliation

Party	Attorneys general
Democratic	44
Republican	4
Unionist	2

Attorneys general in chronological order, showing party affiliation

No.	Image	Name	Term of service	Political party
1		Volney Howard	1846	Democratic
2		John W. Harris	1846–1849	Democratic
3		Henry Percy Brewster	1849–1850	Democratic
4		Andrew Jackson Hamilton	1850	Democratic
5		Ebenezer Allen1	1850–1852	Democratic
6		Thomas J. Jennings	1852–1856	Democratic
7		James Willie	1856–1858	Democratic
8		Malcolm D. Graham	1858–1860	Democratic
9		George M. Flournoy	1860–1862	Democratic
10		Nathan G. Shelley	1862–1864	Democratic
11		Benjamin E. Tarver	1864–1865	Democratic
12		William Alexander	1865–1866	Unionist
13		William M. Walton	1866–1867	Democratic
14		Ezekiel B. Turner	1867–1870	Unionist
15		William Alexander	1870–1874	Republican
16		George W. Clark	1874–1876	Democratic
17		Hannibal Boone	1876–1878	Democratic
18		George McCormick	1878–1880	Democratic
19		James H. McLeary	1880–1882	Democratic
20		John D. Templeton	1882–1886	Democratic
21		Jim Hogg	1886–1890	Democratic
22		Charles Allen Culberson	1890–1894	Democratic
23		Martin McNulty Crane	1894–1898	Democratic
24		Thomas Slater Smith	1898–1901	Democratic
25		Charles K. Bell	1901–1904	Democratic
26		Robert V. Davidson	1904–1910	Democratic
27		Jewel P. Lightfoot	1910–1912	Democratic
28		James D. Walthall	1912–1913	Democratic
29		B. F. Looney	1913–1919	Democratic
30		Calvin Maples Cureton	1919–1921	Democratic
31		Walter Angus Keeling	1921–1925	Democratic
32		Dan Moody	1925–1927	Democratic
33		Claude Pollard2	1927–1929	Democratic
34		Robert L. Bobbitt3	1929–1931	Democratic
35		James V. Allred	1931–1935	Democratic
36		William McCraw	1935–1939	Democratic
37		Gerald Mann	1939–1943	Democratic
38		Grover Sellers	1943–1947	Democratic
39		Price Daniel	1947–1953	Democratic
40		John Ben Shepperd	1953–1957	Democratic
41		Will Wilson	1957–1963	Democratic
42		Waggoner Carr	1963–1967	Democratic
43		Crawford Martin	1967–1972	Democratic
44		John Hill	1973–1979	Democratic
45		Mark White	1979–1983	Democratic
46		Jim Mattox	1983–1991	Democratic
47		Dan Morales	1991–1999	Democratic
48		John Cornyn	1999–2002	Republican
49		Greg Abbott	2002–2015	Republican
50		Ken Paxton	2015–present Suspended May 27, 2023 – September 16, 2023	Republican