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The New York State Comptroller is a state cabinet officer of the U.S. state of New York. The duties of the comptroller include auditing government operations and operating the state's retirement system.
[edit] History
In 1776, the New York Provincial Congress appointed an Auditor-General to settle the public accounts. After his resignation, the Council of Appointment appointed an Auditor to succeed. In 1797, the office of the State Comptroller was created to succeed the State Auditor. Under the Constitution of 1821, the Comptroller was elected by joint ballot of the New York State Legislature to a three-year term. Under the Constitution of 1846, the office became elective by general election, and the Comptroller was elected with the other state cabinet officers in odd years to a two-year term, serving in the second year of the governor in office and the first year of the succeeding governor. The comptroller was elected in 1895 to a three-year term, and subsequently the state officers were elected in even years and served a two-year term concurrently with the governor. Since 1938, the comptroller has been elected to a four-year term, like the governor.
[edit] New York State Comptrollers
- July 24, 1776 - March 23, 1782: Comfort Sands, as Auditor-General [1]
- April 2, 1782 - 1797 Peter T. Curtenius, as Auditor
- March 15, 1797 to 1800: Samuel Jones
- March 12, 1800 to 1801: John Vernon Henry (Fed.)
- August 10, 1801 to March 16, 1806: Elisha Jenkins (Dem.-Rep.) (appointed Secretary of State)
- March 26, 1806 to 1821: Archibald McIntyre (Dem.-Rep./Clintonian)
- February 12, 1821 to January 29, 1823: John Savage (Dem.-Rep.) (elected Chief Justice by the State Legislature)
- February 13, 1823 to January 21, 1829: William L. Marcy (Dem.-Rep./Bucktail) (elected an associate justice by the State Legislature)
- January 27, 1829 - January 4, 1833: Silas Wright (Dem.) (elected US Senator)
- January 11, 1833 to 1839: Azariah C. Flagg (Dem.)
- February 4, 1839 to 1841: Bates Cooke (Whig)
- January 27, 1841 to 1842: John A. Collier (Whig)
- February 7, 1842 - December 31, 1847: Azariah C. Flagg (Democrat)
- January 1, 1848 - December 31, 1849: Millard Fillmore (Whig)
- January 1, - December 1850: Washington Hunt (Whig)
- December 18, 1850 to December 31, 1851: Philo C. Fuller (Whig)
- January 1, 1852 - December 31, 1853: John C. Wright (Dem.)
- January 1, 1854 - December 31, 1855: James M. Cook (Whig)
- January 1, 1856 - December 31, 1857: Lorenzo Burrows (American)
- January 1, 1858 - December 31, 1859: Sanford E. Church (Democrat)
- 1860 to 1861: Robert Dennison
- 1862 to 1865: Lucius Robinson (Democrat)
- 1866 to 1867: Thomas Hillhouse
- 1868 to 1870: William F. Allen
- 1870 to 1871: Asher P. Nichols (Democrat)
- 1872 to 1875: Nelson K. Hopkins
- 1876: Lucius Robinson (Democrat)
- 1877 to 1879: Frederic P. Olcott
- 1880 to 1881: James Wolcott Wadsworth (Republican)
- 1882 to 1883: Ira Davenport (Republican)
- 1884 to 1887: Alfred C. Chapin (Democrat)
- 1888 to 1891: Edward Wemple (Democrat)
- 1891 to 1893: Frank Campbell
- 1894 to 1898: James A. Roberts
- 1899 to 1900: William J. Morgan
- 1900: Theodore P. Gilmann
- 1901: Erastus C. Knight
- 1901 to 1902: Nathan Lewis Miller
- 1903 to 1906: Otto Kelsey
- 1906: William C. Wilsons
- 1907 to 1908: Martin H. Glynn
- 1909: Charles H. Gaus
- 1909 to 1910: Clark Williams
- 1911 to 1914: William Sohmer
- 1915 to 1920: Eugene M. Travis
- 1921 to 1922: James A. Wendell
- 1922: William J. Maier
- 1923 to 1924: James W. Fleming (Democrat)
- 1925 to 1926: Vincent B. Murphy (Republican)
- 1927 to 1941: Morris S. Tremaine (Democrat)
- 1941 to 1942: Joseph V. O'Leary (Democrat)
- 1943 to 1950: Frank C. Moore (Republican)
- 1951 to 1954: J. Raymond McGovern (Republican)
- 1955 to 1978: Arthur Levitt, Sr. (Democrat)
- 1979 to 1992: Edward Regan (Republican)
- 1993 to 2002: Carl McCall (Democrat)
- 2003 to 2006: Alan Hevesi (Democrat) [2]
- December 22, 2006 - February 7, 2007: Tom Sanzillo (Acting Comptroller)
- since February 7, 2007: Thomas DiNapoli (Democrat)
- ^ Google Book The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 34; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- ^ Hevesi resigned in December 2006, after being elected to a second term, and was temporarily replaced by Sanzillo. The New York State Legislature elected DiNapoli to fill out the remainder of Hevesi's term.[1]
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