Attorney General — Massachusetts
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What this office is
The Attorney General of Massachusetts is the state’s lawyer. One office. The whole Commonwealth. The term is four years. The next regular election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Confirm the clock, and the Attorney General of record, on official Massachusetts sites. This office has no term limit — that is a clock fact, not a crown.
This is not the Governor. The Governor file lives at Governor of Massachusetts. This is not a United States Attorney. This is not a District Attorney. This office is the lawyer for Massachusetts.
Boston is the capital, on Beacon Hill, under the gold dome. Boston is also the largest city. That still does not make Boston the whole Commonwealth. Fourteen counties hire the same Attorney General — the Berkshires, the Pioneer Valley, Worcester, the Cape, the Islands, the North Shore, and the South Shore included. County government here is mostly a map, not a second statewide lawyer.
This page is Side One. For this cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the Attorney General of record on mass.gov — Office of the Attorney General.
How the job fits this community
The inbox is a state inbox: a capital file from Beacon Hill that is not the whole harbor, a mill-and-college consumer file from the Pioneer Valley, a Berkshire winter that never makes a downtown broadcast, a Cape and Islands ferry-year file, and a Worcester public-integrity file that is not a Boston news package.
Staff who only know Boston, or only know Beacon Hill as the whole Commonwealth, are not doing the job. Rhode Island is a different state. New Hampshire is a different state. New York is a different state. Connecticut is a different state. The Cape and the Islands remain Massachusetts.
What the job entails
- Represent the Commonwealth. Not a legislator. Not the Governor.
- Opinions where Massachusetts law actually gives them.
- Civil and criminal matters the constitution and statutes actually assign — not every District Attorney’s case.
- Consumer and public-integrity files that are state files.
- Two homes. Boston for the job. The rest of the Commonwealth for the people who hired the office.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: Massachusetts · Office: Attorney General
- Next regular election: 3 November 2026
- Always verify on mass.gov — Office of the Attorney General
What this is not
- Not the Governor. Not a U.S. Attorney. Not a District Attorney.
- Not a United States Senator (Class II is 2026).
- Not the Mayor of Boston.
- Not a campaign flyer.
Official doors
- Office of the Attorney General
- Secretary of the Commonwealth — Elections
- Office of the Attorney General of Massachusetts
The arena: 2026 election — Attorney General of Massachusetts