John R. McCarl

(1879-1940) lived in McCook and Lincoln. Lawyer, executive, government official, served from 1921 to 1936 as the nation's first comptroller general with the General Accounting Office, an independent agency of the U.S. Congress that determines if public funds are appropriately applied by executive agencies, was known as "watch dog of the treasury" and for money-saving decisions while serving under four U.S. Presidents; previously was secretary to U.S. Senator George Norris and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Consult Newsweek, July 11, 1936, pp. 10-11 and Saturday Evening Post, June 15, 1935, p. 22 and August 8, 1936, p. 22 and UNL Nebraska Alumnus, January 1939, pp. 6, 24 and New York Times obituary, August 3, 1940, p. 15 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 1 (1942) 798.

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