David Kemper Watson was a U.S. Representative

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 from Ohio

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Born near London, Ohio

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, Watson was graduated from Dickinson College

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, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

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, in 1871 and from the law department of Boston University

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 in 1873.
He was admitted to the bar

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 and commenced practice.
He served as assistant United States district attorney for the southern district of Ohio during the administration of President Arthur.

Watson was elected attorney general

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 of Ohio in 1887 and reelected in 1889.
He served as special counsel for the United States in the suits brought by the Government against the Pacific railroads in 1892.

Watson was elected as a Republican

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 to the Fifty-fourth

54th United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1897). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1896 to the Fifty-fifth

55th United States Congress

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 Congress. He was appointed by President William McKinley

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 as a member of the commission to revise and codify the laws of the United States. He resumed the practice of law.

He died in Columbus, Ohio

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, September 28, 1918. He was interred in Green Lawn Cemetery.

Watson was married to Louise M. Harrison, daughter of Hon. Richard A. Harrison

Richard A. Harrison

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 of Columbus, Ohio

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, in 1873, and had a son and a daughter.

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