State Attorney of the Transvaal
Appearance
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
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Villiers, John (1896). The Transvaal. London: Chatto & Windus.