Bruce R. Watkins
Political activist
Born on: March 20, 1924Died on: September 13, 1980
Aged: 56 years 177 days (677 months)
Birth Sign: Pisces
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.
Although initially running as a republican, like his stepfather, Bruce R. Watkins later switched his political affiliation and served as Chair of the Jackson County Democratic Committee.
Watkins and his close friend Leon Jordan established the political club "Freedom, Inc." in 1962.
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