John Watson (Virginia politician)

John Watson (died 1870) was a nineteenth-century African-American politician from Virginia.

[1] As an adult following the American Civil War, Watson spent the five years of his life as a freedman promoting African-American schools and churches in Mecklenburg.

A Republican, he was the sole delegate elected from the central Piedmont convention district made up of his home Mecklenburg County.

[3] Following the Convention, Robinson was subsequently elected to the Virginia House of Delegates for the session 1869/70.

[4] John Watson died in 1870 before the end of his term in office.