Bert Lance
| Bert Lance | |
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| Director of the Office of Management and Budget | |
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In office January 24, 1977 – September 24, 1977 |
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| President | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | James T. Lynn |
| Succeeded by | Jim McIntyre |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Thomas Bertram Lance June 3, 1931 Gainesville, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | August 15, 2013 (aged 82) Calhoun, Georgia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | LaBelle David (1950–2013) |
| Education |
Emory University University of Georgia (BA) |
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 his resignation from Carter's administration due to a scandal during his first year in office; he was cleared of all charges.
Lance was born in Gainesville, Georgia. His father, Thomas Jackson Lance, had served as president of Young Harris College in northeast Georgia, and in 1941 the family relocated to Calhoun, in Gordon County, when Lance's father became superintendent of that city's schools.
After graduating from Calhoun High School in 1948, Lance attended Emory University for two years before transferring to the University of Georgia. In 1950, he married LaBelle David, whose family owned the Calhoun First National Bank; they had four sons. Under pressure to support his wife and their first son, Lance dropped out of the University of Georgia (where he was a member of Sigma Chi) before graduating. He became a teller at the bank, and within a decade ascended to its presidency after acquiring a controlling stake with a consortium of investors in 1958. During this period, he completed American Bankers Association-accredited executive education programs at Louisiana State University's School of Banking of the South (1952-1954) and the Stonier School of Banking at Rutgers University (1961-1963). He later served as president of the National Bank of Georgia in Atlanta from 1975 to 1977.
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