State Auditor of Missouri

Seal of the State Auditor of Missouri

The State Auditor of Missouri is an elected official responsible for serving as the State of Missouri's chief fiscal regulator, conducting financial and performance audits for approximately 200 state agencies, boards, and commissions, and the state's judicial branch. The State Auditor also conducts audits for county and city governments lacking their own auditor or when requested by citizen petition. The State Auditor serves a four-year term, and is the only state Executive Branch official elected in even-numbered non-presidential election years. The office was temporarily held by John Watson after Tom Schweich, who was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014, committed suicide on February 26, 2015. Nicole Galloway was appointed by Governor Jay Nixon to fill the office on a permanent basis, effective on April 27, 2015.^[1]

List of State Auditors of Missouri

#	Name	Party	Term	County
1	William Christy	Democratic-Republican	1820–1821	St. Louis
2	William V. Rector	Democratic-Republican	1821–1823	St. Louis, MO
3	Elias Barcroft	Democratic-Republican	1823–1833	St. Louis
4	Henry Shurlds	Democratic	1833–1835	Washington
5	Peter Garland Glover	Democratic	1835–1837	Callaway
6	Hiram H. Baber	Democratic	1837–1845	Cole
7	William Monroe	Democratic	1845	Morgan
8	James W. McDearmon	Democratic	1845–1848	St. Charles
	George W. Miller	Democratic	1848–1849	Cole
9	Wilson Brown	Democratic	1849–1852	Cape Girardeau
10	Abraham Fulkerson	Democratic	1852	Cole
11	William H. Buffington	Democratic	1853–1861	Cole
12	W. S. Moseley	Democratic	1861–1865	New Madrid
13	Alonzo Thompson	Republican	1865–1869	Nodaway
14	Daniel Draper	Republican	1869–1873	Montgomery
15	George Boardman Clark	Democratic	1873–1875	Washington
16	Thomas Holloday	Democratic	1875–1881	Madison
17	John Walker	Democratic	1881–1889	Howard
18	James Monroe Seibert	Democratic	1889–1901	Cape Girardeau
19	Albert Otis Allen	Democratic	1901–1905	New Madrid
20	William Werner Wilder	Republican	1905–1909	Ste. Genevieve
21	John Pemberton Gordon	Democratic	1909–1917	Lafayette
22	George Ernst Hackman	Republican	1917–1925	Warren
23	Lorenzo Dow Thompson	Republican	1925–1933	Callaway
24	Forrest Smith	Democratic	1933–1949	Ray
25	W. H. Holmes	Democratic	1949–1953	Maries
26	Haskell Holman	Democratic	1953–1971	Randolph
27	Christopher Bond	Republican	1971–1973	Audrain
28	John Ashcroft	Republican	1973–1974	Greene
29	George W. Lehr	Democratic	1974–1977	Jackson
30	Thomas M. Keyes	Democratic	1977–1978	Jackson
31	James Antonio	Republican	1978–1984	Cole
32	Margaret B. Kelly	Republican	1984–1999	Cole
33	Claire McCaskill	Democratic	1999–2007	Jackson
34	Susan Montee	Democratic	2007–2011	Buchanan
35	Tom Schweich	Republican	2011-2015	St. Louis
36	John Watson	Democratic	2015	Cole
37	Nicole Galloway	Democratic	2015-	Boone

References

1. Nixon picks Boone County treasurer for state auditor job (St, Louis Post-Dispatch article-April 15, 2015)

• Missouri State Auditor's Office Website
• Official Manual, State of Missouri, 2005–2006.