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Washington's newest conservative. (Julius Caesar Watts Jr) (Outlook 1995)(Crossroads: People and Places on the Brink of Change)

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From: U.S. News & World Report
Date: 19941226
Author:Tharp, Mike

Former University of Oklahoma football star J.C. Watts has won election to the US House of Representatives, and is one of only two black Republicans in Congress. Watts is also a conservative who is expected vote differently than most of his other fellow black legislators.

When Julius Caesar Watts Jr. first arrived at the University of Oklahoma on a football scholarship 18 years ago, he didn't like it much. The student body was huge--five times the size of the small town where he grew up. And as a freshman, No. 7 on a roster of eight quarterbacks, he didn't play much. Twice he became so ...

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