Julius Caesar "J. C." Watts, born in Eufala, Oklahoma 1957, is the first African-American U.S. Representative from Oklahoma. He represented the 4th Congressional District (south-central) from 1995 to 2003. He played football at OU and was starting quarterback in 1979 and led them to two Orange Bowl victories. He then played for the Canadian Football League until 1986.
Watts was elected to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission in 1990, being the first African-American to win a statewide office in Oklahoma.
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