The 1998 Rhode Island Attorney General election was held on November 3, 1998, to elect the Rhode Island Attorney General. Republican incumbent Jeffrey B. Pine was term-limited and ineligible to run for a third consecutive term. Primaries were held on September 15, 1998. Democratic attorney Sheldon Whitehouse won the election in a landslide, defeating Republican Rhode Island treasurer Nancy Mayer by a two-to-one margin.