Michigan Auditor General

Political position

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

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| 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  |

## See also

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* Governor of Michigan
* Michigan Attorney General
* Michigan General Assembly
* Michigan State Capitol

## References

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## External links

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* Office of the Michigan Auditor General

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Michigan auditors general

* Abbott
* Howard
* Hastings
* Felch
* Whipple
* Hammond
* Adam
* Bell
* Adam
* Swegles
* W. Jones
* Case
* Berry
* Anneke
* Humphrey
* Ely
* Latimer
* Stevens
* Aplin
* Stone
* Turner
* Dix
* Powers
* Bradley
* Fuller
* Stack
* O'Hara
* Gundry
* Brown
* Morrison
* Aten
* Martin
* Targonski
* Szymanski
* Hart
* Smith
* Burgett
* Farnum
* Green
* Lee
* Pinkelman
* C. S. Jones
* McTavish
* Ringler

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