Wisconsin. Attorney General's Dept.
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The Wisconsin Constitution, adopted in 1848, provides for an elected Attorney General (Article VI, Section 1). The Office of Attorney General also existed under the Territorial administrations. The Attorney General's Department was often called the Attorney General's Office (ca. 1848-1879, 1895), the Law Department (ca. 1879-1893), or simply Attorney General. In 1967 the Attorney General's Department became the Department of Justice (WIHV85-A890) (Chap. 75, Laws of 1967), under the direction and supervision of the Attorney General. In Wisconsin State Archives database entries, this form of the agency name is used for all variations of the office between 1848 and 1967.
The Attorney General's Department advised state officers and agencies as to their legal affairs. It represented the state in nearly all civil actions in which the state was a party in state and federal courts. In addition, it represented the state in all criminal cases before the Supreme Court and appeared in cases in the trial courts when expressly authorized by law or when requested to do so by the Governor, by either branch of the legislature, or in some cases by state department heads. The Department also represented state employees in certain cases authorized by law.
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