Since early Colonial times Georgia has had an Attorney General. Although the simple form of government adopted by the Trustees of the Colony in 1732 did not include an Attorney General, the need for a legal officer soon became apparent. Williams Stephens, though not a member of the bar, was selected in 1737 to serve as an unofficial counselor to Colonial officials. With the expiration of the royal charter in 1753 and the institution of a more conventional form of government, a Governor was appointed with the power to constitute courts and define their powers. Soon thereafter the King appointed William Clifton, Esquire, a distinguished English lawyer, to be Attorney General of Georgia. He arrived in Savannah in 1754 and immediately began drafting a plan for constituting courts. His report, presented on December 12, 1754, was the genesis of Georgia's present judicial system.
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