State Auditor of Missouri

State Auditor of Missouri
Seal of the State Auditor of Missouri
Incumbent Nicole Galloway since April 27, 2015
Type	State Auditor
Term length	4 years
Formation	1820
First holder	William Christy
Website	Missouri State Auditor's Office Website

The State Auditor of Missouri is an elected constitutional officer in the executive branch of government of the U.S. state of Missouri. The State Auditor is charged by Article IV, Section 13 of the Missouri Constitution with supervising and auditing the receipt and expenditure of public funds and prescribing appropriate systems of accounts for all public offices. In accordance with this mandate, the State Auditor conducts financial and performance audits for approximately 200 state agencies, boards, and commissions, and the state's judicial branch. The State Auditor also audits 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, died on February 26, 2015. Nicole Galloway was appointed by Governor Jay Nixon to fill the office on a permanent basis until the 2018 election, effective on April 27, 2015, and was subsequently elected to a full term. The next election for State Auditor is scheduled for 2022.

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
9	George W. Miller	Democratic	1848–1849	Cole
10	Wilson Brown	Democratic	1849–1852	Cape Girardeau
11	Abraham Fulkerson	Democratic	1852	Cole
12	William H. Buffington	Democratic	1853–1861	Cole
13	W. S. Moseley	Democratic	1861–1865	New Madrid
14	Alonzo Thompson	Republican	1865–1869	Nodaway
15	Daniel Draper	Republican	1869–1873	Montgomery
16	George Boardman Clark	Democratic	1873–1875	Washington
17	Thomas Holloday	Democratic	1875–1881	Madison
18	John Walker	Democratic	1881–1889	Howard
19	James Monroe Seibert	Democratic	1889–1901	Cape Girardeau
20	Albert Otis Allen	Democratic	1901–1905	New Madrid
21	William Werner Wilder	Republican	1905–1909	Ste. Genevieve
22	John Pemberton Gordon	Democratic	1909–1917	Lafayette
23	George Ernst Hackman	Republican	1917–1925	Warren
24	Lorenzo Dow Thompson	Republican	1925–1933	Callaway
25	Forrest Smith	Democratic	1933–1949	Ray
26	W. H. Holmes	Democratic	1949–1953	Maries
27	Haskell Holman	Democratic	1953–1971	Randolph
28	Christopher Bond	Republican	1971–1973	Audrain
29	John Ashcroft	Republican	1973–1975	Greene
30	George W. Lehr	Democratic	1975–1977	Jackson
31	Thomas M. Keyes	Democratic	1977–1978	Jackson
32	James Antonio	Republican	1978–1984	Cole
33	Margaret B. Kelly	Republican	1984–1999	Cole
34	Claire McCaskill	Democratic	1999–2007	Jackson
35	Susan Montee	Democratic	2007–2011	Buchanan
36	Tom Schweich	Republican	2011–2015	St. Louis
37	John Watson	Democratic	2015	Cole
38	Nicole Galloway	Democratic	2015–present	Boone

References

• Official Manual, State of Missouri, 2005–2006.

External links

• Publications by or about the Office of the Missouri State Auditor at Internet Archive.