Samuel Watts (Virginian)

Samuel Watts (November 28, 1799 – May 17, 1878) was a nineteenth-century American politician from Virginia.

[1] As an adult, Watts lived in Norfolk County, Virginia (now Chesapeake) and practiced law there.

[3] A conditional Unionist, Watts declined nomination to the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861.

During the American Civil War, he served briefly as an aide de camp to Major General Walter Grogan beginning in April 1861, but he resigned because of advanced age.

[4] Following the Civil War, Watts served on the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia, and was re-elected to the General Assembly from Norfolk County for the term in 1871–1872 following the Constitution of 1870.