comptroller
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Brandon Patty, a 44-year-old clerk and comptroller in St John's County, Florida and a Navy Reserve commander, is one such American who believes passionately that the Dream is alive and working.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
In New York’s 10th District, former city comptroller Brad Lander trounced Rep. Dan Goldman, a fairly mainstream Democrat, by a whopping 31 points.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
Schlossberg’s inexperience and total lack of punctiliousness would make him a horrible candidate for mayor, president, governor, even comptroller.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
He has been fighting a Democratic primary challenge from Brad Lander, New York City’s former comptroller and a close ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
“I would thank you for precise information on this head, for I have not been able to get any,” he wrote to the comptroller of the treasury, Oliver Wolcott.
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
Elsewhere in the state, voters are electing county executives and comptrollers, including on Long Island where Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, a Democrat, is running for re-election against the county’s Republican comptroller John Kennedy.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2019
Such midyear budget adjustments by the board, common in years when revenue was lower than expected, have “enabled countless governors, comptrollers and treasurers to actively manage the state’s finances,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2017
Those will be filled in and hammered out later by the Office of Management and Budget, the comptrollers of the various departments, and the relevant committees in Congress.
From Slate ● Feb. 27, 2017
It also includes signatures from treasurers or comptrollers from Rhode Island, South Carolina and Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2015
The comptrollers of the public schools confessed that the law provided for the education of "poor and indigent children," and that it extended to those of persons of color.
From History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by Williams, George Washington
