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The Michigan auditor general is the chief fiscal officer of the
State of Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
. 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
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, Forty-Eighter of German Origin and younger brother of U.S. colonel and German 1849 revolutionary leader Fritz Anneke. In 1959, lawyer and
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activist Otis M. Smith was elected the Michigan auditor general, as one of the first
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s to serve in a senior state government office. The current Michigan auditor general,
Doug A. Ringler Doug A. Ringler is the Michigan Auditor General. Ringler was appointed by the Michigan Legislature effective June 9, 2014. Ringler has held positions in state government for 26 years as of 2019. Ringer was named "Internal Auditor of the Year" by ...
, 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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Governor of Michigan The governor of Michigan is the head of government of the U.S. state of Michigan. The current governor is Gretchen Whitmer, a member of the Democratic Party, who was inaugurated on January 1, 2019, as the state's 49th governor. She was re-ele ...
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Michigan Attorney General The attorney general of the State of Michigan is the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. state of Michigan. The officeholder is elected statewide in the November general election alongside the governor of Michigan, governor, Lieutenant Governor of ...
* Michigan General Assembly *
Michigan State Capitol The Michigan State Capitol is the building that houses the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is in the portion of the List of U.S. state capitals, state capital of Lansing, Michigan, Lansing which lies in In ...


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Office of the Michigan Auditor General
{{Michigan Auditors General 1839 establishments in Michigan
Michigan Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...