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1931 - 2013 (82 years)| Name | Thomas Bertram “Bert” LANCE [4, 5, 6] | |
| Birth | 3 Jun 1931 | Gainesville, Georgia  |
| Gender | Male | |
| HIST | of Calhoun, Georgia Thomas Bertram Lance, June 3, 1931 — August 15, 2013 Obituary Thomas Bertram Lance, Thomas Bertram Lance, Sr., age 82 passed away on Thursday evening, August 15, 2013 in Calhoun. Bert was born on June 3, 1931 in Gainesville, GA. He was the son of the late Thomas Jackson Lance and Annie Rose Erwin Lance. Bert was a graduate of Calhoun High School, graduate of The LSU School of Banking, Rutgers University School of Banking, attended Emory University and the University of Georgia, and was a trustee of Young Harris College. He was a member of the Calhoun First United Methodist Church where he taught the Jack Lance Sunday School Class for more than fifty years. Many remember Bert as our hometown banker; the state knew him as director of the Georgia Department of Transportation serving under then Governor Jimmy Carter. He was a democratic Candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1974. After the 1976 Presidential Election, President Jimmy Carter asked Bert to become his National Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He was always willing to serve whether it was his community, his state or his nation. He was preceded in death by parents, his son, Beverly Lance, his sister, Alice Rose McAfee and two brothers, Robert Park Lance and Jack Junior Lance. Survivors include his wife, LaBelle David Lance to whom he was married on September 9, 1950; three sons, Thomas Bertram Lance, Jr. and his wife Melba, David Lance and his wife Barbara all of Calhoun, and Rev. Stuart Lance and his wife Betsy of Norwood, Georgia. Fourteen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren as well as a number of nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral Services will be conducted on Saturday, August 17th at 3:00pm from the Calhoun First United Methodist Church with President Jimmy Carter, Dr. Bob Hoffman, Dick Inman, Jim Minter and Dr. Don Harpe officiating. Burial will follow in Fain Cemetery. Grandsons will serve as Pallbearers and include Thomas Bertram Lance, III, David Jackson Lance, Jr., Clifford Thomas Lance, Stuart Lance, Jr., Dustin Lance, Gerald Ball, Harrison Lance, Thomas Jackson Lance and Robert Lance. Honorary Pallbearers include members of the Jack Lance Sunday School Class as well as Bob Shaw, Tom Caldwell, Tom Johnson, Mark West, Ed Elson, J. Mack Robinson, Bobby Kahn, Jim McEntire, Cathy Cox and Terry Adamson. The family will receive friends on Friday from 4:00 – 7:00pm at Thomas Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 1:00 – 3:00pm on Saturday at the church. Donations may be made to the Bert Lance Fund at the Gordon Health Care Center @ 1280 Mauldin Road, Calhoun, GA 30701 or to the Shepherd Spinal Clinic @ 2020 Peachtree Road, N.W., Atlanta, GA 30309-1465. Thomas Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for Thomas Bertram Lance. Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ‹ Back to Lance surname How are you related to Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)? Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)'s Geni Profile Contact profile manager View family tree Problem with this page? Get Started Middle-Namers Cover of Time magazine Thomas Bertram Lance Also Known As: "Bert Lance" Birthdate: June 03, 1931 Birthplace: Gainesville, Hall, Georgia, United States Death: Immediate Family: Son of Thomas Jackson Lance and Anna Rose Lance Managed by: Private User Last Updated: April 27, 2022 View Complete Profile Historical records matching Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) view all matches › Thomas B Lance in U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI) Thomas Bertram Lance Sr. in Tributes.com Thomas Bertram LANCE in FamilySearch Family Tree Bert Lance in Biographical Summaries of Notable People Bert Lance in Famous People Throughout History Thomas Bertram (Bert) Lance in MyHeritage family trees (Lentz Web Site) view all Immediate Family Anna Rose Lance mother Thomas Jackson Lance fatherAbout Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Lance Thomas Bertram (Bert) Lance (born June 3, 1931) is an American businessman, who was Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Jimmy Carter. He is known mainly for his resignation from President Jimmy Carter's administration due to scandal in 1977. Early Life Lance was born in Gainesville, Georgia and has lived in Gordon County (Calhoun), Georgia. His father, Thomas Jackson Lance, had served as president of Young Harris College. In 1941, the family relocated to Calhoun in Gordon County when Lance's father became superintendent of the Calhoun schools. Lance graduated from the University of Georgia in 1951 and was also initiated into the Sigma Chi fraternity at the Delta Chapter. He later did graduate studies at LSU in Baton Rouge, and at Rutgers. While attending college he married LaBelle David, whose family owned the Calhoun First National Bank. After graduation, Lance became employed by the bank as a clerk and within a decade became its president. He later served as president of National Bank of Georgia in Atlanta from 1975 to 1977. Carter administration Lance was an adviser to Jimmy Carter during Carter's successful 1976 campaign. He had become acquainted with Carter during the latter's time as Governor of Georgia, and served as state highway director during his administration. Lance was an unsuccessful candidate to succeed Carter in 1974, losing a bid for the Democratic nomination. Lance finished third in the first primary, behind Lester Maddox and the eventual winner, George Busbee. Lance accrued campaign debts of nearly $600,000, partly by manipulating loans at his bank. 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, later earned a Pulitzer Prize. This embarrassment for Carter's administration, particularly as it occurred fairly soon after the Watergate scandal and an election victory over President Ford (Richard Nixon's pardoner), caused Lance to resign as OMB director on September 21, 1977. Later, after a well-publicized trial, Lance was acquitted of all charges. In 1981, Lance returned to the Calhoun First National Bank, again as Chairman. He left in 1986. He made something of a political comeback in 1982 when he was elected Chairman of the Georgia Democratic Party. In 1984 Walter Mondale sought to name Lance chairman of the Democratic National Committee. In 1988 Lance was an advisor to Jesse Jackson during Jackson's presidential campaign. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Lance is credited with originating the phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", when he was quoted saying it in the May 1977 issue of the magazine Nation's Business. The expression became widespread, and William Safire wrote that it "has become a source of inspiration to anti-activists." BCCI scandal Lance was implicated in the BCCI scandal of the 1980s and early 1990s. He was involved in deals with notable BCCI luminaries Agha Hasan Abedi, Mochtar Riady and Ghaith Pharaon[5] and with BCCI's largest borrower, P. S. Prasad, and joined with Arkansas-based power investor Jackson Stephens in facilitating BCCI's takeover of Financial General Bankshares. Lance and Stephens made millions in the wake of BCCI's collapse. In January 1978, Lance sold his stock in National Bank of Georgia to Ghaith Pharaon, while on the same day, BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi paid off Lance's $3.5 million loan at the First National Bank of Chicago. The following month, Lance helped BCCI with their hostile bid for Financial General Bankshares of Washington. The attempt failed, but three years later, BCCI secretly acquired the bank (renamed First American Bankshares) using 15 Arab investors as nominees. The next year, Lance introduced Jimmy Carter to Abedi. In 1987, First American Bankshares acquired National Bank of Georgia from Pharaon. BCCI was terminated in 1991 and it was subsequently revealed that the bank had done many illegal activities, including secretly controlling several U.S. banks, in violation of federal banking statutes. Popular references On Saturday Night Live, soon after Lance's resignation from the Carter administration, John Belushi (playing Lance) and Dan Aykroyd (playing Jimmy Carter) appeared in an advertising parody of an American Express credit card commercial. On an episode of Good Times, JJ referred to himself as Bert Lance, offering to make out a check for the family budget knowing they have no money. view all Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)'s Timeline 1931 June 3, 1931 Birth of Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Manag... Gainesville, Hall, Georgia, United States ???? Death of Bert Lance, Director of the Office of Manag... [1, 2, 4, 5] | |
| Occupation | former director of Management and Budget as one of President Jimmy Carter’s first presidential appointments [4] | |
| _UID | 77EB7E666CFE467992B9EDDD05C06742F220 | |
| Death | 15 Aug 2013 | Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia |
| Person ID | I162703 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 28 Dec 2023 | |
| Father | Dr. Thomas Jackson “Jack” LANCE, Sr., b. 31 Jan 1886, Choestoe, Union County, Georgia d. 27 Jan 1980, Cherokee Nursing Home (Age 93 years) | |
| Mother | Annie Rose ERWIN, b. 7 Feb 1894, Union County, Georgia d. 16 May 1988, in a Rome, Georgia, nursing home (Age 94 years) | |
| _UID | 0CAE41934DAF4160B6BDB5E450F5646C4CE2 | |
| _UID | 0CAE41934DAF4160B6BDB5E450F5646C4CE2 | |
| Family ID | F110874 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | LaBelle DAVID | |
| _UID | 102A86103A724977B7A551D4F0178873BF0E | |
| _UID | 102A86103A724977B7A551D4F0178873BF0E | |
| Family ID | F110875 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified | 23 Mar 2026 | |
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