Legal Profession – Attorneys (Lawyers)
Marshall Pitts, Jr. (1964– )
Marshall Pitts, Jr. was the first African American mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina, serving two terms from December 2001 to...
Anthony William Hall, Jr. (1944- )
Anthony William Hall, Jr., a distinguished former national president of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, the Boulé, serving from 1996 to...
John C. Asbury (1862-1941)
Attorney John C. Asbury, originally named John Cornelius Asbury, was born on April 9, 1862, in West Middletown, Pennsylvania. He...
Paul Biya (1933- )
Paul Biya has been President of Cameroon since 1982. Biya was born on February 13, 1933, at Mvomeka’a, Meyomessala Subdivision,...
George W. Draper III (1953- )
The Honorable George W. Draper, the first African American to serve as Chief Judge on the Missouri Court of Appeals,...
Penfield Wallace “Pen” Tate II (1931-1993)
Penfield Tate II was a politician, LGBTQ supporter, and Boulder, Colorado’s first African American mayor. Tate was born on June...
Stephen K. Benjamin (1969- )
Stephen K. Benjamin, the first African American mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, was born Stephen Keith Benjamin on December 1,...
Kenneth E. Reeves (1951- )
Kenneth E. Reeves, the first African American Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, was born Kenneth Errol Reeves in Detroit, Michigan, on...
George F. Bowles (1844-1899)
George F. Bowles, born enslaved in 1844 in Charleston, South Carolina, was one of the most prominent figures in Reconstruction...
