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107TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 107-280
JAMES L. WATSON UNITED STATES COURT OF
INTERNATIONAL TRADE BUILDING
NOVEMBER 13, 2001.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, from the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2841]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to whom
was referred the bill (H.R. 2841) to designate the building located
at 1 Federal Plaza in New York, New York, as the James L. Wat-
son United States Court of Internatinal Trade Building, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment
and recommend that the bill do pass.
James L. Watson, the nation's most senior African American fed-
eral Judge, was born in Harlem, New York. He served with the
Buffalo Soldiers in the 371st Infantry Regiment, 92nd Division in
World War II. He was wounded in Italy and returned to the United
States decorated with a Purple Heart and the Infantry Combat
Badge.
He graduated from New York University in 1947 and from
Brooklyn Law School in 1951. Judge Watson was elected to the
New York State Senate in 1954. With both of his parents being
from Jamaica, in 1962 President Kennedy chose him to accompany
Vice President Johnson to the Jamaican Independence celebration.
In 1963, Judge Watson was elected to the New York City Civil
Court.
President Johnson appointed Judge Watson to what was known
as the United States Customs Court and now known as the United
States Court of International Trade in 1966. The nine members of
the United States Customs Court could be assigned to sit in any
Federal District Court in the nation. Because of his previous expe-
rience, in his first year on the Federal bench, Judge Watson was
appointed to hear cases in California, Oregon, Washington, At-
lanta, Tampa, Houston, El Paso, San Antonio and Dallas on civil
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