Comptroller General of the United States

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The Comptroller General of the United States is the director of the Government Accountability Office (GAO, formerly known as the General Accounting Office), a legislative branch agency founded by Congress in 1921 to ensure the accountability of the federal government.

The Comptroller General is appointed for a fifteen-year term by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the Senate. The current Comptroller General is David M. Walker, who became the seventh Comptroller General of the United States on November 9, 1998. He was preceded by Charles Bowsher ('81-'96). [[1]]

[edit] US Comptrollers General To Date

Comptroller General Date of Service Appointing President
John R. McCarl 1921 - 1936 Warren G. Harding
Fred Brown 1939 - 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lindsay C. Warren 1940 - 1954 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Joseph Campbell 1954 - 1965 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Elmer B. Staats 1966 - 1981 Lyndon B. Johnson
Charles A. Bowsher 1981 - 1996 Ronald Reagan
David M. Walker 1998 - Present (2007) Bill Clinton

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