John S. Watson (New Jersey politician) served as Chairman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee. The John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy located at the Rudolph V. Kuser Mansion on the campus of Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey is named in his honor. His daughter Bonnie Watson Coleman went on to serve in what was once his Assembly seat. She is now a member of the United States House of Representatives. John S. Watson (New Jersey politician) John S. Watson (August 14, 1924 – June 15, 1996) was an African-American Democratic Party politician who served six terms in the New Jersey General Assembly,
Janet Watson Janet Watson Janet Vida Watson FRS FGS (1923–1985) was a British geologist. She was the first woman to become president of the Geological Society of London. She was born 1 September 1923 in Hampstead, London. Her parents were David M. S. Watson FRS, a vertebrate palaeontologist and professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the University of London, and Katharine M. Parker, who did research in embryology before marrying. Watson grew up with her sister Katharine Mary in South Hampstead and attended the local school, before going to Reading University to read General Science. She graduated with a first class