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Bert Lance
Thomas Bertram "Bert" Lance (June 3, 1931 – August 15, 2013) was an American businessman who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Jimmy Carter in 1977. He is known mainly for resigning from the Carter administration because of a scandal during his first year in office. However, he was later cleared of all charges.
Lance was born in Gainesville, Georgia. His father, Thomas Jackson Lance, had served as president of Young Harris College, in northeastern Georgia, and in 1941, the family relocated to Calhoun when Lance's father became superintendent of Calhoun schools.
After graduating from Calhoun High School in 1948, Lance attended Emory University for two years before he transferred to the University of Georgia, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. In 1950, he married LaBelle David, whose family owned the Calhoun First National Bank; they had four sons. Under pressure to support his growing family, Lance dropped out of the University of Georgia before graduating.
He became a teller at Calhoun First National Bank and, within a decade, ascended to its presidency. He acquired a controlling stake of the bank with a consortium of investors in 1958. Meanwhile, he completed executive education programs at the Louisiana State University School of Banking of the South and the Stonier School of Banking at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He served as president of the National Bank of Georgia in Atlanta from 1975 to 1977 before serving in the Carter Administration.
Lance introduced himself to Jimmy Carter at the 1966 annual meeting of the Coosa Valley Area Planning and Development Commission. He aided Carter in campaigning in the northwest part of Georgia for Governor that year. Carter did not qualify for the general election, but after running again and winning in 1970, he invited Lance to become State Highway Director. Lance ran to succeed Carter in 1974 but lost a bid for the Democratic nomination, finishing third in the first primary behind Lester Maddox and the eventual winner, George Busbee. During the campaign, Lance accrued campaign debts of nearly $600,000.
Lance was an adviser to Carter during his successful 1976 presidential campaign. After Carter's victory over President Gerald Ford, Lance was named Director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB). According to former OMB officials, it was well known in the department that Bert Lance and President Carter prayed together every morning.
Within six months, questions were raised by the press and Congress about mismanagement and corruption when Lance was chairman of the board of Calhoun First National Bank of Georgia. William Safire's article written during this time, Carter's Broken Lance, earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
It was an embarrassment for Carter's administration, particularly as it took place soon after President Nixon's Watergate scandal and President Ford's pardon of Nixon just before he could be tried for any crimes. To ensure there was no hint of similar impropriety in the Carter administration, Lance resigned his position. Later, after a well-publicized trial in 1980, a jury acquitted Lance on nine charges, and did not decide two others.
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Bert Lance
Thomas Bertram "Bert" Lance (June 3, 1931 – August 15, 2013) was an American businessman who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Jimmy Carter in 1977. He is known mainly for resigning from the Carter administration because of a scandal during his first year in office. However, he was later cleared of all charges.
Lance was born in Gainesville, Georgia. His father, Thomas Jackson Lance, had served as president of Young Harris College, in northeastern Georgia, and in 1941, the family relocated to Calhoun when Lance's father became superintendent of Calhoun schools.
After graduating from Calhoun High School in 1948, Lance attended Emory University for two years before he transferred to the University of Georgia, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. In 1950, he married LaBelle David, whose family owned the Calhoun First National Bank; they had four sons. Under pressure to support his growing family, Lance dropped out of the University of Georgia before graduating.
He became a teller at Calhoun First National Bank and, within a decade, ascended to its presidency. He acquired a controlling stake of the bank with a consortium of investors in 1958. Meanwhile, he completed executive education programs at the Louisiana State University School of Banking of the South and the Stonier School of Banking at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He served as president of the National Bank of Georgia in Atlanta from 1975 to 1977 before serving in the Carter Administration.
Lance introduced himself to Jimmy Carter at the 1966 annual meeting of the Coosa Valley Area Planning and Development Commission. He aided Carter in campaigning in the northwest part of Georgia for Governor that year. Carter did not qualify for the general election, but after running again and winning in 1970, he invited Lance to become State Highway Director. Lance ran to succeed Carter in 1974 but lost a bid for the Democratic nomination, finishing third in the first primary behind Lester Maddox and the eventual winner, George Busbee. During the campaign, Lance accrued campaign debts of nearly $600,000.
Lance was an adviser to Carter during his successful 1976 presidential campaign. After Carter's victory over President Gerald Ford, Lance was named Director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB). According to former OMB officials, it was well known in the department that Bert Lance and President Carter prayed together every morning.
Within six months, questions were raised by the press and Congress about mismanagement and corruption when Lance was chairman of the board of Calhoun First National Bank of Georgia. William Safire's article written during this time, Carter's Broken Lance, earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1978.
It was an embarrassment for Carter's administration, particularly as it took place soon after President Nixon's Watergate scandal and President Ford's pardon of Nixon just before he could be tried for any crimes. To ensure there was no hint of similar impropriety in the Carter administration, Lance resigned his position. Later, after a well-publicized trial in 1980, a jury acquitted Lance on nine charges, and did not decide two others.
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