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Peter K. Michael

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionMay 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ16732554 ↗
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Peter K. Michael is an American attorney. He served as Attorney General of Wyoming from 2013 to 2019. The former Attorney General Gregory A. Phillips appointed him Chief Deputy Attorney General on May 1, 2011. Michael took over as acting-Attorney General on July 9, 2013, and succeeded him officially on September 6, 2013. His term of office is 4 years.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16732554. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013, 2019 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter K. Michael” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.