Elton Watkins

Elton Watkins ( born July 6, 1881 in Newton, Newton County, Mississippi, † June 24, 1956 in Portland, Oregon ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1925 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Elton Watkins attended the public schools of his home in Mississippi and then the Webb School in Bell Buckle ( Tennessee). Then he studied until 1910 at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. With a law degree from the Law School of George Washington University in Washington in 1912, he completed his education. During his studies in Washington, he worked occasionally for the FBI, which was then called the Bureau of Investigations.

In 1912 he moved to Portland, Oregon, where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1914 and 1918 he was employed as a prosecutor with the Bar Association of Oregon. During World War II, he again worked for the Bureau of Investigations. In 1919 he became Deputy Attorney General for Oregon.

Policy

Watkins was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1922 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Clifton N. McArthur replaced on March 4, 1923. Since he was not re-elected at the next election, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1925.

In the years 1930 and 1932 he applied unsuccessfully for a seat each in the U.S. Senate, where he was defeated in 1932 already in the primaries of his party. Also in 1932 and again in 1940 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of mayor of Portland.

Elton Watkins died in June 1956 in Portland, where he was also buried. Since 1918 he was married to Daniela Ruth Sturgis, with whom he had two children.