G. W. Watson

George. W. Watson was an American politician. He was a member of the Arkansas Legislature in 1891. He represented Crittenden County as a republican.^[1] Watson was included in a photo montage of African American state legislators serving in Arkansas in 1891 published in the Indianapolis Freeman.^[2]

Watson was born in 1861 near Holly Springs, Mississippi. He had one brother, and two sisters.^[3] After freedom from enslavement, but before becoming a Legislator, Watson worked as a farmer, teacher, Magistrate, and as deputy sheriff.^[4] He eventually moved to Hopefield, Arkansas.^[5]

See also

• African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900