United States Solicitor General
The United States Solicitor General is the individual tasked with arguing for the United States Government in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, when the government is party to a case.The Solicitor General works within the United States Department of Justice; (s)he is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Solicitors General Since 1870
Benjamin H. Bristow
October 1870 - November 1872
Grant
Samuel F. Phillips
November 1872 - May 1885
Grant
John Goode (Acting)
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 Bullit
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.
May 1929 - April 1930
Hoover
Thomas D. Thacher
March 1930 - May 1933
Hoover
James Crawford Biggs
May 1933 - March 1935
Roosevelt
Stanley F. 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
Dwight D. Eisenhower
J. Lee Rankin
August 1956 - January 1961
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Archibald Cox
January 1961 - July 1965
John F. Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall
August 1965 - August 1967
Lyndon Johnson
Erwin N. Griswold
October 1967 - June 1973
Lyndon Johnson
Robert H. Bork
June 1973 - January 1977
Richard Nixon
Wade H. McCree
March 1977 - August 1981
Jimmy Carter
Rex E. Lee
August 1981 - June 1985
Ronald Reagan
Charles Fried
October 1985 - January 1989
Ronald Reagan
Kenneth W. Starr
May 1989 - January 1993
George H. W. Bush
Drew S. Days, III
May 1993 - July 1996
Bill Clinton
Seth P. Waxman
November 1997 - January 2001
Bill Clinton
Theodore B. Olson
June 2001 -
George W. Bush
