New York State Comptrollers
| Name | Took office | Left office | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comfort Sands | July 24, 1776 | March 23, 1782 | as Auditor-General | |
| Peter T. Curtenius | April 2, 1782 | 1797 | as Auditor | |
| Samuel Jones | March 15, 1797 | March 12, 1800 | ||
| John Vernon Henry | March 12, 1800 | August 10, 1801 | Federalist | |
| Elisha Jenkins | August 10, 1801 | March 16, 1806 | Dem.-Rep. | appointed Secretary of State |
| Archibald McIntyre | March 26, 1806 | February 12, 1821 | Dem.-Rep./Clintonian | |
| John Savage | February 12, 1821 | January 29, 1823 | Dem.-Rep. | appointed Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court |
| William L. Marcy | February 13, 1823 | January 21, 1829 | Dem.-Rep./Bucktail | appointed to the New York Supreme Court shortly before the end of his second term |
| Silas Wright | January 27, 1829 | January 7, 1833 | Democratic | elected a U.S. Senator from New York during his second term |
| Azariah C. Flagg | January 11, 1833 | February 4, 1839 | Democratic | two terms |
| Bates Cooke | February 4, 1839 | January 1841 | Whig | resigned because of bad health |
| John A. Collier | January 27, 1841 | February 7, 1842 | Whig | elected to a term of three years, but in 1842 all Whig state officers were removed by Democratic majority of the State Legislature |
| Azariah C. Flagg | February 7, 1842 | December 31, 1847 | Democratic | two terms, legislated out of office by the Constitution of 1846 |
| Millard Fillmore | January 1, 1848 | February 20, 1849 | Whig | first Comptroller elected by general ballot; elected U.S. Vice President |
| Washington Hunt | February 20, 1849 | December 18, 1850 | Whig | elected by the State Legislature to fill unexpired term, then re-elected, then elected Governor of New York |
| Philo C. Fuller | December 18, 1850 | December 31, 1851 | Whig | appointed to fill unexpired term |
| John C. Wright | January 1, 1852 | December 31, 1853 | Democratic | |
| James M. Cook | January 1, 1854 | December 31, 1855 | Whig | |
| Lorenzo Burrows | January 1, 1856 | December 31, 1857 | American | |
| Sanford E. Church | January 1, 1858 | December 31, 1859 | Democratic | |
| Robert Denniston | January 1, 1860 | December 31, 1861 | Republican | |
| Lucius Robinson | January 1, 1862 | December 31, 1865 | Union | two terms |
| Thomas Hillhouse | January 1, 1866 | December 31, 1867 | Republican | |
| William F. Allen | January 1, 1868 | July 1, 1870 | Democratic | elected a judge of the New York Court of Appeals |
| Asher P. Nichols | July 1, 1870 | December 31, 1871 | Democratic | appointed to fill unexpired term, elected for the remainder of the term in Nov. 1870 |
| Nelson K. Hopkins | January 1, 1872 | December 31, 1875 | Republican | two terms |
| Lucius Robinson | January 1, 1876 | December 31, 1876 | Democratic | elected Governor of New York |
| Frederic P. Olcott | January 1, 1877 | December 31, 1879 | Democratic | appointed to fill unexpired term, then elected for a full term in Nov. 1877 |
| James W. Wadsworth | January 1, 1880 | December 31, 1881 | Republican | |
| Ira Davenport | January 1, 1882 | December 31, 1883 | Republican | |
| Alfred C. Chapin | January 1, 1884 | December 31, 1887 | Democratic | two terms |
| Edward Wemple | January 1, 1888 | December 31, 1891 | Democratic | two terms |
| Frank Campbell | January 1, 1892 | December 31, 1893 | Democratic | |
| James A. Roberts | January 1, 1894 | December 31, 1898 | Republican | two terms (1894-95, 1896-98) |
| William J. Morgan | January 1, 1899 | September 5, 1900 | Republican | died in office |
| Theodore P. Gilman | September 5, 1900 | December 31, 1900 | Republican | as First Deputy Comptroller acted until being appointed to fill unexpired term |
| Erastus C. Knight | January 1, 1901 | December 28, 1901 | Republican | elected Mayor of Buffalo |
| Nathan L. Miller | December 30, 1901 | November 1903 | Republican | appointed to fill unexpired term, then elected for a full term in Nov. 1902, then resigned to take office as a justice of the New York Supreme Court |
| Otto Kelsey | November 12, 1903 | May 2, 1906 | Republican | appointed to fill unexpired term, then elected for a full term in Nov. 1904, then appointed Superintendent of Insurance |
| William C. Wilson | May 2, 1906 | December 31, 1906 | Republican | as First Deputy Comptroller acted until being appointed on November 8 to fill unexpired term |
| Martin H. Glynn | January 1, 1907 | December 31, 1908 | Democratic | |
| Charles H. Gaus | January 1, 1909 | October 31, 1909 | Republican | died in office |
| Otto Kelsey | October 31, 1909 | November 11, 1909 | Republican | as First Deputy Comptroller acted until the appointment of a successor |
| Clark Williams | November 11, 1909 | December 31, 1910 | Republican | appointed to fill unexpired term |
| William Sohmer | January 1, 1911 | December 31, 1914 | Democratic | two terms |
| Eugene M. Travis | January 1, 1915 | December 31, 1920 | Republican | three terms |
| James A. Wendell | January 1, 1921 | May 10, 1922 | Republican | died in office |
| William J. Maier | May 10, 1922 | December 31, 1922 | Republican | as First Deputy Comptroller acted until being appointed on May 22 to fill unexpired term |
| James W. Fleming | January 1, 1923 | December 31, 1924 | Democratic | |
| Vincent B. Murphy | January 1, 1925 | December 31, 1926 | Republican | |
| Morris S. Tremaine | January 1, 1927 | October 12, 1941 | Democratic | seven terms, died in office |
| Harry D. Yates | October 12, 1941 | October 17, 1941 | Democratic | as First Deputy Comptroller acted until the appointment of a successor |
| Joseph V. O'Leary | October 17, 1941 | December 31, 1942 | American Labor | appointed to fill unexpired term |
| Frank C. Moore | January 1, 1943 | December 31, 1950 | Republican | two terms |
| J. Raymond McGovern | January 1, 1951 | December 31, 1954 | Republican | |
| Arthur Levitt, Sr. | January 1, 1955 | December 31, 1978 | Democratic | six terms, longest-serving Comptroller (24 years) |
| Edward Regan | January 1, 1979 | May 7, 1993 | Republican | resigned in the middle of his fourth term |
| Carl McCall | 1993 | December 31, 2002 | Democratic | elected by State Legislature to fill unexpired term, then re-elected twice |
| Alan Hevesi | January 1, 2003 | December 22, 2006 | Democratic | re-elected to a second term, but resigned prior to its commencement |
| Thomas Sanzillo | December 22, 2006 | February 7, 2007 | as First Deputy Comptroller acted until the election of a successor by the State Legislature | |
| Thomas DiNapoli | February 7, 2007 | present | Democratic | elected by the State Legislature to fill unexpired term, then re-elected |
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