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James Watt (Florida politician)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ141274132 ↗
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James "Jim" Lloyd Watt (April 22, 1944 – June 9, 2025) was an American politician. He was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1978 to 1986. The Florida Archives have a photo of him debative on the House floor in 1986. He was a Republican. In 1985, he ran for attorney general of Florida, but lost to Democratic candidate Bob Butterworth in 1986.

Watt died in Lake Worth, Florida on June 9, 2025, at the age of 81.

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This entry incorporates text from “James Watt (Florida politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.