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 the 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

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Image Name Term Party
  Robert Abbott 1836–1839 Democratic
  Henry Howard 1839–1840
Eurotas P. Hastings 1840–1842
  Alpheus Felch 1842 Democratic
Henry L. Whipple 1842
Charles G. Hammond 1842–1845
  John J. Adam 1845–1846 Democratic
Digby V. Bell 1846–1848
  John J. Adam 1848–1850 Democratic
John Swegles, Jr. 1851–1854
Whitney Jones 1855–1858
Daniel L. Case 1859–1860
Langford G. Berry 1861–1862
Emil Anneke 1863–1866 Republican
William Humphrey 1867–1874
Ralph Ely 1875–1878
  W. Irving Latimer 1879–1882 Republican
  William C. Stevens 1883–1886 Republican
  Henry H. Aplin 1887–1890 Republican
George W. Stone 1891–1892
Stanley W. Turner 1893–1896
  Roscoe D. Dix 1897-1900 Republican
Perry F. Powers 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
George T. Gundry 1937–1938
  Vernon J. Brown 1939–1944 Republican
John D. Morrison 1945–1946
  Murl K. Aten 1947–1950 Republican
John B. Martin, Jr. 1951–1954
Victor Targonski 1955–1956
Frank S. Szymanski 1956–1959
William R. Hart 1959
  Otis M. Smith 1959–1961
William A. Burgett 1961
  Billie S. Farnum 1961–1964
  Allison Green 1965
  Albert Lee 1965–1982
Franklin C. Pinkelman 1982–1989
Charles S. Jones 1989
Thomas H. McTavish 1989–2014
Doug A. Ringler 2014–present

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