John Watts

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1749

Birth Place: New York City

Death Date: 1836

Death Place: New York City

Affiliations: New York State , United States Government

Notes: American lawyer and politician from New York. Member of New York State Assembly (1791-1793); Member of US Congress (1793-1795); judge of Westchester County, New York (1802-1807). Member of the commission to build Newgate Prison in New York City (1796-1799). Appointed commissioner to a state prison in 1796.

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