About JC
Julius Caesar Watts Jr. (born 1957) is an American politician, Baptist minister, and former college and professional football player. He played quarterback for the University of Oklahoma and professionally in the Canadian Football League with the Ottawa Rough Riders and Toronto Argonauts. After retiring from football in 1986, he became a Baptist minister and was elected to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission in 1990 as the first African-American elected to statewide office in Oklahoma. He served in the U.S.
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- Quarterback for University of Oklahoma Sooners
- Canadian Football League quarterback
- U.S. Representative from Oklahoma's 4th district
- Chair of the House Republican Conference
- First African-American to deliver Republican response to State of the Union address
- Baptist minister
- Oklahoma Corporation Commission member
- Politician
- Former football player
- Lobbyist
- Consultant
- Author
- Politics
- Sports
- Religion
- Republican politics
- U.S. Congress
- American football
- Civil rights
- Conservative politics
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