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United States Solicitor General
United States Solicitor General
	Flag of the United States Solicitor General
	Incumbent; Elizabeth Prelogar; since October 28, 2021
	Department of Justice; Office of the Solicitor General
Reports to	The Attorney General
Appointer	The President; with Senate advice and consent
Constituting instrument	28 U.S.C. § 505
Formation	October 1870; Prior to this date,; the Attorney General exercised; most of the duties now performed; by the Solicitor General.
First holder	Benjamin H. Bristow
Website	Office of the Solicitor General

The United States Solicitor General is the fourth-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice.

The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The current Solicitor General, Elizabeth Prelogar, was confirmed by the Senate on October 28, 2021.^[1]^[2]

The Solicitor General determines the legal position that the United States will take in the Supreme Court. In addition to supervising and conducting cases in which the government is a party, the office of the Solicitor General also files amicus curiae briefs in cases in which the federal government has a significant interest in the legal issue.

The office of the Solicitor General argues on behalf of the government in virtually every case in which the United States is a party, and also argues in most of the cases in which the government has filed an amicus brief.

List of solicitors general

Name	Start	End
Benjamin Bristow	October 11, 1870	November 15, 1872	Ulysses Grant
Samuel Phillips	December 11, 1872	May 1, 1885	Ulysses Grant
John Goode	May 1, 1885	August 5, 1886	Grover Cleveland
George Jenks	July 30, 1886	May 29, 1889	Grover Cleveland
Orlow Chapman	May 29, 1889	January 19, 1890	Benjamin Harrison
William Taft	February 4, 1890	March 20, 1892
Charles Aldrich	March 21, 1892	May 28, 1893
Lawrence Maxwell	April 6, 1893	January 30, 1895	Grover Cleveland
Holmes Conrad	February 6, 1895	July 1, 1897	Grover Cleveland
John Richards	July 6, 1897	March 16, 1903	William McKinley
Henry Hoyt	February 25, 1903	March 31, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt
Lloyd Bowers	April 1, 1909	September 9, 1910	William Taft
Frederick Lehmann	December 12, 1910	July 15, 1912
William Bullitt	July 16, 1912	March 11, 1913
John Davis	August 30, 1913	November 26, 1918	Woodrow Wilson
Alexander King	November 27, 1918	May 23, 1920
William Frierson	June 1, 1920	June 30, 1921
James Beck	June 1, 1921	May 11, 1925	Warren Harding
William Mitchell	June 4, 1925	March 5, 1929	Calvin Coolidge
Charles Hughes	May 27, 1929	April 16, 1930	Herbert Hoover
Thomas Thacher	March 22, 1930	May 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
James Biggs	May 5, 1933	March 24, 1935	Franklin Roosevelt
Stanley Reed	March 25, 1935	January 30, 1938
Robert Jackson	March 5, 1938	January 17, 1940
Francis Biddle	January 22, 1940	September 4, 1941
Charles Fahy	November 15, 1941	September 27, 1945
Howard McGrath	October 4, 1945	October 7, 1946	Harry Truman
Philip Perlman	July 30, 1947	August 15, 1952
Walter Cummings	December 2, 1952	March 1, 1953
Simon Sobeloff	February 10, 1954	July 19, 1956	Dwight Eisenhower
Lee Rankin	August 4, 1956	January 23, 1961	Dwight Eisenhower
Archibald Cox	January 24, 1961	July 31, 1965	John F. Kennedy
Thurgood Marshall	August 11, 1965	August 30, 1967	Lyndon Johnson
Erwin Griswold	October 12, 1967	June 25, 1973	Lyndon Johnson
Robert Bork	June 27, 1973	January 20, 1977	Richard Nixon
Robert Bork	June 27, 1973	January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford
Daniel Friedman Acting	January 20, 1977	March 4, 1977	Jimmy Carter
Wade McCree	March 4, 1977	January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
Rex Lee	August 6, 1981	June 1, 1985	Ronald Reagan
Charles Fried	June 1, 1985 Acting: June 1, 1985 – October 23, 1985	January 20, 1989	Ronald Reagan
William Bryson Acting	January 20, 1989	May 27, 1989	George H. W. Bush
Ken Starr	May 27, 1989	January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
William Bryson Acting	January 20, 1993	June 7, 1993	Bill Clinton
Drew Days	June 7, 1993	June 28, 1996
Walter Dellinger Acting	June 28, 1996	November 7, 1997
Seth Waxman	November 7, 1997	January 20, 2001
Barbara Underwood Acting	January 20, 2001	June 13, 2001	George W. Bush
Ted Olson	June 13, 2001	July 13, 2004
Paul Clement	July 13, 2004 Acting: July 13, 2004 – June 13, 2005	June 2, 2008
Gregory Garre	June 2, 2008 Acting: June 2, 2008 – October 2, 2008	January 20, 2009
Edwin Kneedler Acting	January 20, 2009	March 20, 2009	Barack Obama
Elena Kagan	March 20, 2009	May 17, 2010
Neal Katyal Acting	May 17, 2010	June 9, 2011
Don Verrilli	June 9, 2011	June 25, 2016
Ian Gershengorn Acting	June 25, 2016	January 20, 2017
Noel Francisco Acting	January 20, 2017	March 10, 2017	Donald Trump
Jeff Wall Acting	March 10, 2017	September 19, 2017
Noel Francisco	September 19, 2017	July 3, 2020
Jeff Wall Acting	July 3, 2020	January 20, 2021
Elizabeth Prelogar Acting	January 20, 2021	August 11, 2021	Joe Biden
Brian Fletcher Acting	August 11, 2021	October 28, 2021
Elizabeth Prelogar	October 28, 2021	present
D. John Sauer Nominee	TBD		Donald Trump

Note: Some terms overlap because the incumbent remained in office after a successor was named. The office has been vacant at times while awaiting the nomination or confirmation of a successor.