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

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

See also

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