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Attorney General: Jeff Sessions: February 8, 2017 November 7, 2018 Resigned at the request of President Trump. Replaced temporarily with Matthew Whitaker. [22] William Barr. February 14, 2019 December 23, 2020 Resigned. President Trump announced Barr's departure in December and the Attorney General subsequently confirmed it. [23] Sally Yates ...
William Barr, a former Attorney General in the George H. W. Bush administration, was nominated to reprise his former role as the permanent replacement for Sessions on December 7, 2018. On February 14, 2019, he was confirmed by the Senate in a vote of 54–45 and was sworn in later that day. [ 160 ]
On December 14, 2020, it was announced that Rosen would become acting Attorney General on December 24, the day after William Barr's resignation took effect. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] [ 74 ] According to a January 21, 2021, report in The New York Times , even before Barr had left, Rosen was summoned to the Oval Office and pressured by President Donald Trump ...
William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950) is an American attorney who served as United States attorney general in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1991 to 1993 and again in the administration of President Donald Trump from 2019 to 2020.
On December 7, 2018, Trump nominated William Barr for Attorney General. [5] The legality of Whitaker's appointment as acting U.S. Attorney General was challenged in multiple lawsuits, [6] and questioned by legal scholars, commentators, and politicians. [7]
The United States attorney general (AG) ... William Barr 1st term: United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel (1989–1990)
The Senate voted 54-45 to confirm him, mostly along party lines. Barr, who previously served as AG from 1991 to 1993, will succeed Jeff Sessions.
United States Attorney General Acting; In office January 20, 1993 – March 12, 1993: President: Bill Clinton: Preceded by: William Barr: Succeeded by: Janet Reno: United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division; In office October 24, 1989 – March 19, 1993: President: George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton: Preceded by: John Bolton ...