List of United States Attorneys for Wisconsin

The office of United States Attorney for the Wisconsin Territory came into being when the Wisconsin Territory was created from the remnants of the Michigan Territory. When Wisconsin became the 30th state in 1848, the United States Attorney for the District of Wisconsin was established. In 1870, the state was split into two jurisdictions, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.[1]

Wisconsin Territory
U.S. Attorney Years Notes President(s)
William W. Chapman 1836 – 1838 Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Moses M. Strong 1838 – 1841
Thomas W. Sutherland 1841 – 1845 John Tyler
William Pitt Lynde 1845 – 1848 Elected to U.S. House James K. Polk

District of Wisconsin
U.S. Attorney Years Notes President(s)
Thomas W. Sutherland 1848 James K. Polk
A. Hyatt Smith 1848 – 1849
George W. Lakin 1850 – 1853 Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
John R. Sharpstein 1853 – 1857 Later Justice of the Supreme Court of California Franklin Pierce
Don A. J. Upham 1857 – 1861 James Buchanan
John B. D. Cogswell 1861 – 1866 Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson

Eastern and Western District
U.S. Attorney, Western Dist. Years Notes President(s) U.S. Attorney, Eastern Dist. Years Notes
Charles M. Webb 1870 – 1878 Ulysses S. Grant Levi Hubbell 1870 – 1875
Gerry Whiting Hazelton 1876 – 1885
Rutherford B. Hayes
H. M. Lewis 1878 – 1886
James A. Garfield
Chester A. Arthur
Grover Cleveland Arthur K. Delaney 1885 – 1887
Allen R. Bushnell 1886 – 1890
William A. Walker 1887 – 1890
Benjamin Harrison
Samuel A. Harper 1890 – 1894 Elihu Colman 1890 – 1893
Grover Cleveland John H. M. Wigman 1893 – 1897
Harry E. Briggs 1894 – 1898
William McKinley Milton E. Phillips 1897 – 1901
David F. Jones 1898 – 1901
William G. Wheeler 1901 – 1909 Theodore Roosevelt H. K. Butterfield 1901 – 1910
George H. Gordon 1909 – 1913 William Howard Taft
E. A. Henning 1910 – 1911
Guy D. Goff 1911 – 1915 Later U.S. Senator
John A. Aylward 1913 – 1916 Woodrow Wilson
H. A. Sawyer 1915 – 1923
Arthur Mulberger 1916
William F. Wolfe 1916 – 1917
Albert C. Wolfe 1917 – 1921
William H. Dougherty 1921 – 1927 Warren G. Harding
Edward W. Miller 1923
Calvin Coolidge William O. Meilahm 1923
Roy L. Morse 1923 – 1927
Stanley M. Ryan 1927 – 1944 Grandfather of Paul Ryan Levi H. Bancroft 1927 – 1932
Herbert Hoover
Edward J. Gehl 1932 – 1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt Bert Husting 1933 – 1944
Charles H. Cashin 1944 – 1951 Timothy T. Cronin 1944 – 1955
Harry S. Truman
Thomas E. Fairchild 1951 – 1952 Later Senior Judge of the U.S. 7th Circuit
Frank Nikolay 1952 – 1953
George E. Rapp 1953 – 1962 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Edward G. Minor 1955 – 1961
John F. Kennedy James B. Brennan 1961 – 1969
Nathan Heffernan 1962 – 1965 Later Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Lyndon B. Johnson
Michael J. Wyngaard 1965 – 1969
Edmond A. Nix 1969 Richard Nixon David J. Cannon 1969 – 1973
John O. Olson 1969 – 1974
David B. Bukey 1973 – 1974
Steven C. Underwood 1974
David C. Mebane 1974 – 1977 Gerald Ford William J. Mulligan 1974 – 1978
Frank M. Tuerkheimer 1977 – 1981 Jimmy Carter
Joan F. Kessler 1978 – 1981 First female U.S. Attorney for Wisconsin
John R. Byrnes 1981 – 1987 Ronald Reagan Joseph Peter Stadtmueller 1981 – 1987
Patrick J. Fiedler 1987 – 1991 Patricia J. Gorence 1987 – 1988
John E. Fryatt 1988 – 1993
George H. W. Bush
Kevin C. Potter 1991 – 1993
Peg Lautenschlager 1993 – 2001 Bill Clinton Thomas Paul Schneider 1993 – 2001
J. B. Van Hollen 2001 – 2006 George W. Bush Steven M. Biskupic 2001 – 2009
Erik C. Peterson 2006 – 2010
Barack Obama James Santelle 2009 – 2015
John W. Vaudreuil 2010 – 2017
Gregory Haanstad 2015 – 2017
Scott Blader 2017 – Present Donald Trump Matthew Krueger 2017 – Present

References
  1. https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2011/11/23/bicn_celebration.pdf
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