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H. Carl McCall

Carl McCall
Comptroller of New York
In office
May 7, 1993 – December 31, 2002
Governor Mario Cuomo
George Pataki
Preceded by Ned Regan
Succeeded by Alan Hevesi
Member of the New York Senate
from the 28th district
In office
January 1, 1975 – December 31, 1980
Preceded by Sidney von Luther
Succeeded by Leon Bogues
Personal details
Born Herman Carl McCall
(1935-10-17) October 17, 1935 (age 81)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Cecilia McCall (Divorced)
Joyce Brown (1983–present)
Alma mater Dartmouth College
Andover Newton Theological School
Military service
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch  United States Army
Years of service 1959

Herman Carl McCall (born October 17, 1935) is a former Comptroller of the U.S. state of New York and was the Democratic candidate for state governor in 2002. He is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, and currently serves on the board of directors of several corporations. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and was also educated at the University of Edinburgh, received a Master's of Divinity Degree from Andover Newton Theological School. He was the first African-American to be elected comptroller of New York. Since October 17, 2011 he has served as the chairman of the State University of New York Board of Trustees.

McCall was born in the Roxbury section of Boston, the oldest of six children. His father, Herman McCall, moved to Boston from Georgia, and left the family when Carl McCall was eleven. McCall attended church with Edward Brooke. He attended Dartmouth College on private and ROTC scholarships, and graduated in 1958 with a bachelor's degree in government. During the 1960s, McCall worked as a high school teacher and a bank manager. He taught for six months at Jamaica Plain High School on Sumner Hill in Boston, and then joined the Army. He opened a church in the Dorchester neighborhood. By the late 1960s McCall moved to New York City to work for church outreach. He was appointed by New York Mayor John Lindsay to head the Commission Against Poverty.

During the 1970s, McCall, backed by Harlem political power, Percy Sutton, was elected to three terms as a State Senator representing Harlem and other parts of Manhattan. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1975 to 1980, sitting in the 181st, 182nd and 183rd New York State Legislatures. He left the Senate to accept an appointment from President Jimmy Carter as a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador.


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