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This I did not know, until I read this article at Far Outliers, followed by confirmation elsewhere: although the office of Attorney General of the United States had existed since the first cabinet, the Department of Justice was not established until 1870. Its establishment was part of President Grant's war on the Ku Klux Klan - he needed manpower and other resources for the crackdown.
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