The Michigan Auditor General is the chief fiscal officer of the
State of Michigan
Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the l ...
. 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
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The British ...
,
Forty-Eighter of German Origin and younger brother of U.S. colonel and German 1849 revolutionary leader
Fritz Anneke
Karl Friedrich Theodor "Fritz" Anneke () was a German revolutionary, socialist and newspaper editor. He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1849 and became a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, and later worked as an entr ...
. In 1959, lawyer and
NAACP
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activist
Otis M. Smith
Otis Milton Smith (February 20, 1922 – June 29, 1994) was the first African American justice on the Michigan Supreme Court and the General Counsel for General Motors.
Smith graduated from law school at The Catholic University of America in 195 ...
was elected Michigan Auditor General, as one of the first
African American
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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
See also
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Governor of Michigan
The governor of Michigan is the head of state, head of government, and chief executive 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 th ...
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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 ...
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Michigan General Assembly
The Michigan Legislature is the state legislature (United States), legislature of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is organized as a bicameral body composed of an upper chamber, the Michigan Senate, Senate, and a lower chamber, the Michigan House ...
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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 state capital of Lansing which lies in Ingham County. The present structure, at the inter ...
References
External links
Office of the Michigan Auditor General{{Michigan Auditors General
1839 establishments in Michigan
Michigan
Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the List of U.S. states and ...