United States Attorney General asked to stay on and be Acting Attorney General until the confirmation of the new Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who had been nominated for the office in November 2016 by then-President-elect Donald Trump. (1) (3) As of , there are eleven, living former US Attorneys General, the oldest being Ramsey Clark (served 1967–1969, born 1927). The most recent Attorney General to die was Janet Reno on November 7, 2016 (served 1993–2001, born 1938) U.S.C. Title 28, §508 establishes the first two positions in the line of succession, while allowing the Attorney General to designate other high-ranking officers of the Department
Florida Attorney General of two four-year terms for the Attorney General. The Governor of Florida is restricted to two consecutive terms, with no lifetime limit on the number of terms he or she may serve. The Attorney General appoints the Florida Solicitor General who serves at his or her pleasure. The current solicitor is Amit Agarwal. In the event that the offices of the governor of Florida and lieutenant governor of Florida are vacated, the attorney general then becomes governor. The Florida Attorney General can be impeached for committing a "misdemeanor in office" by the State Legislature, and convicted and thereby removed from