Brian Sonntag is the State Auditor for Washington and a Democrat.
Sonntag was first elected to public office in 1978 as Pierce County Clerk, working as the administrative officer for the Superior Courts. On November 4, 1986, he was elected to the office of Pierce County Auditor, an office his father, Jack W. Sonntag, had held from 1948 to 1969. Following the end of his second term, Sonntag was elected Washington State Auditor on November 3, 1992. He has been re-elected every four years since then, most recently in 2008 with 70 percent of the vote.
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