William Morten Tong (Chinese: 湯偉麟; pinyin: Tāng Wěilín, born May 2, 1973) is an American lawyer and progressive politician who is the 25th and current Attorney General of Connecticut.

[1] His father, Ady, left China for Hong Kong during the Chinese Civil War, and his mother, Nancy, was a Taiwanese American who immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan in the 1960s.

[4][5] Before his election as attorney general, Tong practiced law for 18 years as a litigator in both state and federal courts, first at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York City and then at Finn Dixon & Herling LLP in Stamford.

Tong is also on the national executive committee of attorneys general who are leading the investigation and litigation to confront the opioid crisis, including Connecticut’s case against Purdue Pharma.

He joined other state attorneys general in challenging Trump, including his attempts to build a border wall[13] and to add a citizenship question to the census.

[14] Tong has been a defender of the environment, taking numerous legal actions to protect clean air and water and to confront climate change.

[citation needed] As a freshman legislator, Tong wrote and passed the Lost and Stolen Firearms law[16] to fight gun trafficking.

He faced Susan Bysiewicz, former secretary of state and now Connecticut's lieutenant governor, and Chris Murphy, the eventual winner, in the Democratic primary.

[22] On November 14, 2009, the Hartford Courant reported that the panel assembled had forwarded four names to the White House and President Barack Obama for consideration; Tong was a finalist on that list.