Michigan Auditor General
The Michigan Auditor General is the chief fiscal officer of the State of Michigan. The Office of the Auditor General was established in 1836 and, with changes to the Michigan Constitution in 1963, has become the independent oversight arm of the Legislature. The first Michigan Auditor General was Robert Abbott. The first Republican in office (1863) was Emil Anneke, an active abolitionist, Forty-Eighter of German Origin and younger brother of U.S. colonel and German 1849 revolutionary leader Fritz Anneke. In 1959, lawyer and NAACP activist Otis M. Smith was elected Michigan Auditor General, as one of the first African Americans to serve in a senior state government office.
The current Michigan Auditor General, Doug A. Ringler, C.P.A, C.I.A, was appointed by the Michigan Legislature effective June 9, 2014.
List of Michigan Auditors General since 1836[]
| Name | Term | Party |
|---|---|---|
| Robert Abbott | 1836–1839 | Democratic |
| Henry Howard | 1839–1840 | |
| 1840–1842 | ||
| Alpheus Felch | 1842 | Democratic |
| 1842 | ||
| 1842–1845 | ||
| John J. Adam | 1845–1846 | Democratic |
| 1846–1848 | ||
| John J. Adam | 1848–1850 | Democratic |
| John Swegles, Jr. | 1851–1854 | |
| 1855–1858 | ||
| 1859–1860 | ||
| 1861–1862 | ||
| Emil Anneke | 1863–1866 | Republican |
| 1867–1874 | ||
| 1875–1878 | ||
| W. Irving Latimer | 1879–1882 | Republican |
| William C. Stevens | 1883–1886 | Republican |
| Henry H. Aplin | 1887–1890 | Republican |
| 1891–1892 | ||
| 1893–1896 | ||
| Roscoe D. Dix | 1897-1900 | Republican |
| 1901–1904 | ||
| James B. Bradley | 1905–1908 | Republican |
| Oramel B. Fuller | 1909–1932 | Republican |
| John K. Stack, Jr. | 1933–1935 | Democratic |
| John J. O'Hara | 1935–1936 | |
| 1937–1938 | ||
| Vernon J. Brown | 1939–1944 | Republican |
| 1945–1946 | ||
| Murl K. Aten | 1947–1950 | Republican |
| 1951–1954 | ||
| 1955–1956 | ||
| 1956–1959 | ||
| 1959 | ||
| Otis M. Smith | 1959–1961 | |
| William A. Burgett | 1961 | |
| Billie S. Farnum | 1961–1964 | |
| Allison Green | 1965 | |
| Albert Lee | 1965–1982 | |
| 1982–1989 | ||
| 1989 | ||
| Thomas H. McTavish | 1989–2014 | |
| Doug A. Ringler | 2014–present |
See also[]
- Governor of Michigan
- Michigan Attorney General
- Michigan General Assembly
- Michigan State Capitol
References[]
External links[]
- State constitutional officers of Michigan
- State auditors and comptrollers of the United States
- 1839 establishments in Michigan
- Michigan Auditors General