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,
Cecil Watson Cecil Watson Cecil James Watson (May 31, 1901 – April 11, 1983) was an American hepatologist. Watson was born in Minneapolis to Irish immigrant parents. His father was a doctor and received university education in Canada. The younger Watson enrolled at the University of Minnesota in 1919 to study French, English, and writing. In 1921, Watson began medical studies at the University of Michigan, and transferred to the University of Minnesota Medical School the next year, where he completed his degrees. He earned a doctor of medicine and master's of science degree, followed by a doctorate in pathology in 1928.