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'''Julius Caesar "J.C." Watts''' is a conservative [[Republican]] who served as  U.S. Representative from [[Oklahoma]], 1994-2002. He was a star quarterback for the University of Oklahoma as Most Valuable Player in the Orange Bowl ganes of 1980 and 1981; he then played professional football in the [[Canadian Football League]]. He became a Baptist minister and was elected to Congressin 1994, the year of the [[Republican Revolution]]. As the only black Republican in Congress he became a spokesman for the GOP and in 2002 was the House GOP Conference Chairman. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56636,00.html</ref>  
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'''Julius Caesar "J.C." Watts''' is a conservative [[Republican]] who served as  U.S. Representative from [[Oklahoma]], 1994-2002. He was a star quarterback for the University of Oklahoma as Most Valuable Player in the Orange Bowl ganes of 1980 and 1981; he then played professional football in the [[Canadian Football League]]. He became a Baptist minister and was elected to Congress in 1994, the year of the [[Republican Revolution]]. As the only black Republican in Congress he became a spokesman for the GOP and in 2002 was the House GOP Conference Chairman. <ref>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56636,00.html</ref> He published the book ''What Color is a Conservative?'' in 2002.<ref name="wattsbio">{{cite book|title=What Color is a Conservative? My Life and My Politics|last=Watts|first=J. C., Jr.|coauthors=Watson, Chriss|year=2002|publisher=HarperCollins |location=New York |isbn=0060932406 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SFPvP0pN720C}}</ref>
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==References==
 
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==External links==
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*[http://jcwatts.com/ J. C. Watts Companies]
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*[http://jcwattsfoundation.org/ The J.C. & Frankie Watts Foundation]
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*[http://webarchives.loc.gov/collections/lcwa0002/20021212012004/http://watts.house.gov/ Congressman J.C. Watts Jr. archived congressional website] via the [[Library of Congress]]
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*[http://baic.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=50 J. C. Watts Jr. profile] via Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives
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*[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000210 J. C. Watts Jr. profile] via Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
    
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