Letitia James

American lawyer and politician (born 1958)

IncumbentAttorney General — NYDemocraticRunning nowVugol ID VM-C3A-TFVD

Running for Attorney General, NY, 2026

Link: vugol.me/p/letitia-james

Roster source: Wikipedia (secondary source) (2026-09-19)

Letitia James — Photo — Photo · DVSROSS · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Letitia James — Illustration · Vugol.me — Illustration · Vugol.me
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Races

2026 · Attorney General, NY · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
2018 · Attorney General, NY · General · Democratic · won · 3,699,165 votes (62.3%) · source

Background

Letitia Ann "Tish" James is an American lawyer and politician from the state of New York. She has served since 2019 as the 67th attorney general of New York (NYAG), having been first elected to the post in 2018.

A member of the Democratic Party, James is the first Black person to serve as New York attorney general and is the first Black woman to hold statewide office in New York.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-20 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_James

Website and social

Campaign site

Campaign contact: info@jamesforny.com · source

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Sources

Portrait — WBLS · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons (file page)
Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-20 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_James
Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6533414
Roster — Wikipedia (secondary source) — https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2026_New_York_Attorney_General_election&oldid=1375232901
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letitia_James_at_New_York_Pride_50_-_2019-348_(48166918552)_(1).jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TAG_Letitia_James_02.jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letitia_James_2013_(cropped).jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letitia_James_at_March_for_Our_Lives_NYC.jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letitia_James_at_New_York_Pride_50_-_2019-348_(48166918552).jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Letitia_James_2013.jpg

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