State Attorney of the Transvaal

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The State Attorney of the Transvaal was the principal legal officer of the Transvaal,[1] or, as it was also known, the South African Republic.

List of officeholders

No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Tenure Notes
1 Eduard Johan Pieter Jorissen
(1829–1912)		 1876–1877
2 Willem Johannes Leyds
(1859–1940)		 1884–1888
3 ? Burgers 1888?–1894
4 Ewald Auguste Esselen
(1858–1918)		 1894–1895
5 Hermanus Jacobus Coster
(1865–1899)		 1895–1898 Later killed in the Battle of Elandslaagte of the Second Boer War.
6 Jan Christiaan Smuts
(1870–1950)		 1898–1902

See also

References

  1. ↑ De Villiers, John (1896). The Transvaal. London: Chatto & Windus.


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