August Alan Post [17 Sept. 1914-26 Mar 2011] was California’s Legislative Analyst from 1949-1977 where he monitored the state budgets of five governors from Earl Warren to Jerry Brown as the head of the influential organization that provided the legislature with nonpartisan counsel on fiscal issues. As one writer summed his career, his “success spurred the creation of similar government agencies around the nation, including the widely respected Congressional Budget Office.” Post received his undergraduate degree from Occidental College in economics and art, and completed two years of work on a graduate degree in economics from Princeton University, but left to teach at Occidental and only applied for his master’s degree in 1969. He was a founding director of the Public Policy Institute of California in 1994. The California Journal named him in 2000 as one of California’s 30 most influential public figures of the 20th Century.