Watson, David K
lawyer, congressman, was born June 18, 1849, near London, Ohio. He was assistant United States district attorney for the southern district of Ohio during the administration of President Arthur; and in 1887 was nominated by the republican state convention of Ohio for attorney-general and elected, and was renominated by acclamation and re-elected in 1889. In 1892 he was appointed special counsel for the United States in the suits brought by the government against the Pacific railroads.
In 1894 he was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican, being the only republican ever elected from the district.