Michigan Auditor General

The Michigan Auditor General is the chief fiscal officer of the State of Michigan. The office was established in 1839 and has been made an electoral office in 1850. The first Michigan Auditor General was Robert Abbott, and the first elected Auditor General John Swegles, Jr.. 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 (since 1989) is Thomas H. McTavish, C.P.A.

List of Michigan Auditors General since 1836

Name	Term	Party
Robert Abbott	1836-39
Henry Howard	1839-40
Eurotus P. Hastings	1840-42
Alpheus Felch	1842
Henry L. Whipple	1842
Charles G. Hammond	1842-45
John J. Adam	1845-46
Digby V. Bell	1846-48
John J. Adam	1848-50
John Swegles, Jr.	1851-54
Whitney Jones	1855-58
Daniel L. Case	1859-60
Langford G. Berry	1861-62
Emil Anneke	1863-66	Republican
William Humphrey	1867-74
Ralph Ely	1875-78
W. Irving Latimer	1879-82
William C. Stevens	1883-86
Henry H. Aplin	1887-90
George W. Stone	1891-92
Stanley W. Turner	1893-96
Roscoe D. Dix	1897-1900
Perry F. Powers	1901-04
James B. Bradley	1905-08
Oramel B. Fuller	1909-32
John K. Stack, Jr.	1933-35
John J. O'Hara	1935-36
George T. Gundry	1937-38
Vernon J. Brown	1939-44
John D. Morrison	1945-46
Murl K. Aten	1947-50
John B. Martin, Jr.	1951-54
Victor Targonski	1955-56
Frank S. Szymanski	1956-59
William R. Hart	1959
Otis M. Smith	1959-61
William A. Burgett	1961
Billie S. Farnum	1961-64
Allison Green	1965
Albert Lee	1965-82
Franklin C. Pinkelman	1982-89
Charles S. Jones	1989
Thomas H. McTavish	1989-

See also

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

References

External links

• Office of the Michigan Auditor General