The First 100 Black CPAs

The National Society of Black CPAs was founded to focus on increasing the number of Black CPAs licensed in the United States. The Black CPA has always been the most underrepresented group within the CPA profession, representing less than 1% of all CPAs licensed in the United States for many years. As you can see from the below list of the first 100 Black CPAs licensed throughout the United States, it took us 44 years just to get the first 100 Black CPAs licensed. Out of the first 100 Black CPAs 28 were licensed in the state of Illinois, which is why the National Society of Black CPAs was formed in the State of Illinois. We will be doing more to showcase the history of the Black CPA in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.

#	CPA Name	Year Licensed	State Licensed
1	John W. Cromwell, Jr.	1921	New Hampshire
2	Arthur J. Wilson	1923	Illinois
3	Chauncey L. Christian	1926	Kentucky
4	Jesse B. Blayton, Sr.	1928	Georgia
5	Wlimer F. Lucas	1929	New York
6	Paul G. Stewart	1937	Illinois
7	Louis Rawlings	1937	Illinois
8	Alfred W. Tucker	1938	New York
9	Theodore A. Jones	1940	Illinois
10	Charles A. Beckett	1941	Illinois
11	Richard H. Austin	1941	Michigan
12	William L. Campfield	1941	North Carolina
13	Mary T. Washington	1943	Illinois
14	G. Steven Marchman III	1944	Illinois
15	Lincoln J. Harrison	1946	Louisiana
16	George L. Unthank	1948	New York
17	Jesse H. Turner, Sr.	1948	Tennessee
18	Parnell Drayton	1949	New York
19	Hiram L. Pittman	1949	Illinois
20	Elvera Taylor	1949	Illinois
21	Milton S. Monjoy	1949	Michigan
22	Cary B. Lewis, Jr.	1950	Kentucky
23	Walter P. Harris	1950	Pennsylvania
24	George Washington	1950	Michigan
25	Elmer J. Whiting, Jr.	1950	Ohio
26	Isaac Y. Little	1950	Illinois
27	Milton Wilson	1951	Indiana
28	Dr. Larzette G. Hale	1951	Georgia
29	Frederick C. Ford	1952	Illinois
30	Benjamin H. Crockett	1953	Illinois
31	William S. Anderson	1953	Illinois
32	Charles T. Cartwright, Jr.	1954	Illinois
33	Hubert W. Mullings	1954	New York
34	Bernadine Coles Gines	1954	New York
35	Wilbur Parker	1954	New Jersey
36	Oliver Walcott	1954	New York
37	Calvin L. Cooke	1955	Texas
38	Evelyn McLendon Beasley	1955	Indiana
39	Bruce L. Murray	1955	New York
40	Andrew M. Bradley	1955	Pennsylvania
41	Mizura Allen	1955	Oklahoma
42	Ernest Davenport	1956	Michigan
43	Lewis W. Vaughn, Jr.	1956	Pennsylvania
44	George D. Faulkner	1957	New York
45	Thomas J. Whiting	1957	Ohio
46	Curtis C. Duke	1957	Virginia
47	Melvin J. Bergeron	1957	Louisiana
48	Benjamin L. King, Sr.	1957	Maryland
49	Cecil Bogan	1957	Illinois
50	Arthur M. Reynolds, Sr.	1958	Maryland
51	Emanuel Whiting	1958	Pennsylvania
52	Clarence R. Newby	1958	California
53	Arthur Macklin	1958	Illinois
54	Donald Eugene Farrar	1959	Connecticut
55	Joseph Watson	1959	New Jersey
56	William D. Collins	1959	California
57	Julius M. Cayson, Jr.	1959	New York
58	Theodora F. Rutherford	1960	West Virginia
59	Emsar Bradford	1960	Maryland
60	Broadus Sawyer	1960	Maryland
61	Lester H. McKeever, Jr.	1960	Illinois
62	William P. Reiland	1961	Illinois
63	Joseph J. Cramer, Jr.	1961	Texas
64	Donald C. Haley	1961	Ohio
65	Sanford M. Perkins	1961	Virginia
66	James W. Price	1961	California
67	Carroll D. Lee	1961	Maryland
68	William Porter	1961	District of Columbia
69	Edward V. Hipps, Jr.	1961	Illinois
70	Thomas W. McCrae	1961	California
71	Nathan T. Garrett	1961	Michigan
72	Herman Johnson	1962	New York
73	Otha Brandon	1962	Tennessee
74	Emerson E. Blue	1962	Illinois
75	Edmond N. Fambro	1962	Illinois
76	James Tatum, Jr.	1963	New York
77	Gregory H. Moses, Jr.	1962	New York
78	David A. Kelly	1962	Illinois
79	Ted A. St. Leger, Jr.	1962	Illinois
80	Calvin P. McCord	1962	California
81	William L. Jones	1962	California
82	Caspa Harris	1962	Virginia
83	Jerome R. Broadus	1963	Maryland
84	Bert W. Smith, Jr.	1963	District of Columbia
85	Joyce Turney	1963	Ohio
86	Ruth Coles Harris	1963	Virginia
87	William Hughes	1963	Illinois
88	Edward A. Williams	1963	Illinois
89	Robert E. Hill	1963	California
90	James Howard	1963	New York
91	Wayman F. Smith, Jr.	1964	Missouri
92	Robert W. Coles, Jr.	1964	Ohio
93	Donald T. Morgan	1964	California
94	Henry T. Wilfong, Jr.	1964	California
95	Dr. Johnnie L. Clark	1964	Georgia
96	Charles Seymour	1964	New Jersey
97	Delmar Barnes	1964	Ohio
98	John E. Wilson	1965	Illinois
99	Audley E. Coulthurst	1965	New York
tie - 100	Alvin J. Freeman, Jr.	1965	Illinois
tie - 100	Wilson C. Stockey	1965	Illinois