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Julius Caesar Watts Jr. (born November 18, 1957) is an American politician, clergyman, and former football player. Watts played as a quarterback in college football for the Oklahoma Sooners and later played professionally in the Canadian Football League (CFL).
May 8, 2024 · J.C. Watts, American Republican politician who served as a congressman from Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. In 1997 he was the first African American to deliver his party’s response to the president’s State of the Union address.
- Rick Farmer
- Becomes Canadian Football Star
- Switches Political Parties
- Elected to First Office
- Sworn Into Congress
When the 1981 NFL draft came around, Watts was picked for the New York Jets. He quickly found that he would be unable to start in his position, quarterback, and that he likely never would. He was told there was simply too much quarterback talent in the NFL. But Watts acknowledged in his autobiography that black NFL quarterbacks were few and far bet...
As a journalism student in college, Watts covered a U.S. Senate campaign debate between a young Republican candidate named Don Nickles and Andy Coats, the Democratic mayor of Oklahoma City. "I left the hall that afternoon one confused African American," he wrote in What Color Is a Conservative?, "because I found myself agreeing more with what the R...
After many miles on the campaign trail, Watts became the first African American elected to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. In his autobiography, Watts described the experience as challenging and rewarding, but also frustrating and difficult. As he was sworn in January 1991, he wrote, "I approached my new commission responsibilities with the gr...
Watts ran for the Fourth Congressional District of Oklahoma, a moderate to conservative area. The contest focused on several issues: defense, term limits, gun control, abortion, taxes, and Bush's Contract with America. The issues soon took a back seat to politics. Watts wrote in What Color Is a Conservative? that he believed "the last person who wo...
Nov 1, 2017 · Political leader J.C. Watts was born on November 18, 1957 in Eufaula, Oklahoma to J.C. Watts, Sr. and Helen Watts. Watts originally attended Booker T. Washington Elementary School in Eufaula, but became one of two children to integrate Jefferson Davis Elementary School in 1964.
Feb 19, 2021 · Black History Month: Oklahoma's First Black Congressman J.C. Watts. On Friday, during our series covering Black History makers of Oklahoma, we spoke with former Representative J.C. Watts....
Dec 3, 2020 · Former Congressman J.C. Watts founded the Black News Channel earlier this year. He reflects on the year's protests and what he learned from John Lewis.
WATTS, JULIUS CAESAR, JR. (1957– ). U.S. representative from Oklahoma in the 1990s and the state's first black congressman, J. C. Watts, Jr., was born in Eufaula, Oklahoma, on November 18, 1957, to Helen and Julius C. Watts, Sr. The Watts family were politically active.
