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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

Emil Anneke

Emil Anneke was a German revolutionary and Forty-Eighter and American journalist, lawyer and politician . From 1863 until 1866 he served as Michigan Auditor General, the first Republican serving in that position. Emil was the younger brother of U.S...

, an active abolitionist, Forty-Eighter of German Origin and younger brother of U.S. colonel and German 1849 revolutionary leader Fritz Anneke

Fritz Anneke

Friedrich 'Fritz' Anneke was a German socialist and newspaper editor, owner, and reporter. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1849 and became an officer in the Union army, and later an entrepreneur and journalist...

. In 1959, lawyer and NAACP activist Otis M. Smith

Otis M. Smith

Otis M. Smith 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 1950, where he was a member of the first volume of the school's Law Review.He then went to Flint,...

was elected Michigan Auditor General, as one of the first African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

s 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 Henry Howard (Detroit) Henry Howard was a banker and businessman, and served as mayor of Detroit in 1837, and as the first treasurer of the state of Michigan.-Biography:...	1839-40
Eurotus P. Hastings	1840-42
Alpheus Felch Alpheus Felch Alpheus Felch was the fifth Governor of Michigan and U.S. Senator from Michigan.-Early life:Felch was born in Limerick, Maine. He was left an orphan at the age of three and lived with his grandfather Abijah Felch, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War...	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
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Daniel L. Case	1859-60
Langford G. Berry	1861-62
Emil Anneke Emil Anneke Emil Anneke was a German revolutionary and Forty-Eighter and American journalist, lawyer and politician . From 1863 until 1866 he served as Michigan Auditor General, the first Republican serving in that position. Emil was the younger brother of U.S...	1863-66	Republican Republican Party (United States) The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...
William Humphrey	1867-74
Ralph Ely	1875-78
W. Irving Latimer	1879-82
William C. Stevens	1883-86
Henry H. Aplin Henry H. Aplin Henry Harrison Aplin was an American Civil War veteran, businessman, and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.-Biography:...	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 Otis M. Smith Otis M. Smith 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 1950, where he was a member of the first volume of the school's Law Review.He then went to Flint,...	1959-61
William A. Burgett	1961
Billie S. Farnum Billie S. Farnum Billie Sunday Farnum was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.Farnum was born in Saginaw, Michigan and raised in a farm community at Watrousville. He graduated from Vassar High School, Vassar, Michigan, in 1933 and continued his education in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1935...	1961-64
Allison Green	1965
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Franklin C. Pinkelman	1982-89
Charles S. Jones	1989
Thomas H. McTavish	1989-

List of Michigan Auditors General since 1836

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