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Melvin L. Watt
(1945-)
A 1967 graduate of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, Melvin L. "Mel" Watt
earned the highest academic average in his
class at UNC's Business School.
He earned his law degree from Yale
University in 1970, and returned to his
hometown of Charlotte to practice law. Watt
served in the North Carolina Senate from
1985-86. When another prominent black Charlottean, Harvey Gantt, ran for local
and national political offices, Mel Watt managed his campaigns.
In 1992, Watt, a Democrat, was elected from the N.C.'s 12th District to the U.S.
House of Representatives, and joins Rep. Eva Clayton as one of only two blacks
elected to Congress from North Carolina since the turn of the century. He has
received honorary degrees from Johnson C. Smith University and N.C. A. & T.
University.
Watt and his wife, the former Eulada Paysour, have two sons.
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