Mr. McCall also sued Albany, accusing the state of inequitable school funding, while the Legislature was considering him for the post of state comptroller after Edward V. Regan resigned.
They once nominated Abe Hirschfeld, the wealthy realtor now on parole after serving time in a murder-for-hire plot, for the post of state comptroller.
JERUSALEM — Miriam Ben-Porat, the first woman to serve as a justice on Israel's Supreme Court and to hold the post of state comptroller, the government's watchdog, died on Thursday at her home in Jerusalem.
A parallel bid for election to the post of city comptroller by Elliot Spitzer, brought low by his admission that he hired prostitutes when governor of New York state, has done nothing to elevate the debate.
Meanwhile, the candidate whose comeback try seems to have been inspired by Weiner's — Eliot Spitzer, the former governor, who fell from grace the old-fashioned, low-tech way, by hiring prostitutes, and who entered the race for the unglamorous post of city comptroller six weeks after Weiner announced his run — is leading his primary opponent in the polls.
Mr. Ferrer would have to agree in advance to support black candidates for the posts of city comptroller and Bronx borough president, the article said.
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Coolidge appointed some African Americans to federal office; he retained Harding's choice of Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans, Louisiana, as the comptroller of customs and offered Cohen the post of minister to Liberia, which the businessman declined.
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Mr. John D. Hawke Jr., former Comptroller Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
