Bruce R. Watkins
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Bruce R. Watkins
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Bruce Riley Watkins and his stepfather Theron B. Watkins (1877–1950) were prominent political and social activists in Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri. The younger Watkins was the first African-American elected to Kansas City's City Council, in 1963; the first African-American elected to office in that county's administration, in 1966; and the first African-American to nearly win election as Kansas City Mayor, in April 1979. Watkins was a Republican and served as Chair of the Jackson Cou
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