Ford also served from 1930 until his death in 1965 as the municipal finance commissioner.
From 1956 to 1960, Scott was the elected municipal finance commissioner.
It is too soon to know if the Finance Commissioner will be able to reach his goal.
His political career began in 1927, when he was elected to the Pekin city council as the city's finance commissioner.
He was Galveston's finance commissioner from 1901 to 1915 and its mayor from 1917 to 1919.
She says the only bittersweet aspect to being named finance commissioner is that neither parent lived to see it.
The Finance Commissioner cautioned the forecast does not include inflation.
Martha E. Stark, the city's new finance commissioner, said the city was still trying to determine how much it lost in revenues.
He also served as finance commissioner for Collinsville.
Ms. Stark, the finance commissioner, has a reputation as a no-nonsense numbers cruncher.