| Benjamin H. Bristow |
October 1870 - November 1872 |
Grant |
| Samuel F. Phillips |
November 1872 - May 1885 |
Grant |
| John Goode |
May 1885 - August 1886 |
Cleveland |
| George A. Jenks |
July 1886 - May 1889 |
Cleveland |
| Orlow W. Chapman |
May 1889 - January 1890 |
Harrison |
| William Howard Taft |
February 1890 - March 1892 |
Harrison |
| Charles H. Aldrich |
March 1892 - May 1893 |
Harrison |
| Lawrence Maxwell, Jr. |
April 1893 - January 1895 |
Cleveland |
| Holmes Conrad |
February 1895 - July 1897 |
Cleveland |
| John K. Richards |
July 1897 - March 1903 |
McKinley |
| Henry M. Hoyt |
February 1903 - March 1909 |
Roosevelt |
| Lloyd Wheaton
Bowers |
April 1909 - September 1910 |
Taft |
| Frederick W. Lehmann |
December 1910 - July 1912 |
Taft |
| William Marshall Bullitt |
July 1912 - March 1913 |
Taft |
| John William Davis |
August 1913 - November 1918 |
Wilson |
| Alexander C. King |
November 1918 - May 1920 |
Wilson |
| William L. Frierson |
June 1920 - June 1921 |
Wilson |
| James M. Beck |
June 1921 - June 1925 |
Harding |
| William D. Mitchell |
June 1925 - March 1929 |
Coolidge |
| Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. |
May 1929 - April 1930 |
Hoover |
| Thomas D. Thacher |
March 1930 - May 1933 |
Hoover |
| James Crawford Biggs |
May 1933 - March 1935 |
Roosevelt |
| Stanley Reed |
March 1935 - January 1938 |
Roosevelt |
| Robert H. Jackson |
March 1938 - January 1940 |
Roosevelt |
| Francis Biddle |
January 1940 - September 1941 |
Roosevelt |
| Charles Fahy |
November 1941 - September 1945 |
Roosevelt |
| J. Howard McGrath |
October 1945 - October 1946 |
Truman |
| Philip B. Perlman |
July 1947 - August 1952 |
Truman |
| Walter J. Cummings, Jr. |
December 1952 - March 1953 |
Truman |
| Simon E. Sobeloff |
February 1954 - July 1956 |
Eisenhower |
| J. Lee Rankin |
August 1956 - January 1961 |
Eisenhower |
| Archibald Cox |
January 1961 - July 1965 |
Kennedy |
| Thurgood Marshall |
August 1965 - August 1967 |
Johnson |
| Erwin N. Griswold |
October 1967 - June 1973 |
Johnson |
| Robert H. Bork |
June 1973 - January 1977 |
Nixon |
| Wade H. McCree, Jr. |
March 1977 - August 1981 |
Carter |
| Rex Lee |
August 1981 - June 1985 |
Reagan |
| Charles Fried |
October 1985 - January 1989 |
Reagan |
| Kenneth W. Starr |
May 1989 - January 1993 |
Bush |
| Drew S. Days, III |
May 1993 - July 1996 |
Clinton |
| Walter E. Dellinger III (Acting for the term) |
August 1996 - October 1997 |
Clinton |
| Seth P. Waxman |
November 1997 - January 2001 |
Clinton |
| Theodore B. Olson |
June 2001 - July 2004 |
Bush |
| Paul D. Clement |
June 2005 - June 2008 |
Bush |
