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James K. Watkins
James Keir Watkins (May 24, 1887 – February 1970) was an American attorney and police commissioner. He played college football for the University of Michigan from 1905 to 1909. He later became a leading attorney in Detroit and served as commissioner of the Detroit Police Department in the early 1930s. He also organized the Detroit branch of "The Volunteers" in 1936 "to save their country from a perpetuation of the New Deal."〔
==Early years==
Watkins was born in 1887. He was the son of the Rev. Amos Watkins of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Bay City, Michigan. He attended Ann Arbor High School and next enrolled at the University of Michigan. He played at the tackle, fullback and center positions for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1905 to 1909. He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford in 1909. Watkins later received a law degree from Detroit College of Law and began practicing law in Detroit. He also regularly returned to Ann Arbor to serve as an assistant coach to the football team under head coach Fielding H. Yost.〔("'Jim' Watkins, former Michigan gridder, has joined 'Tommy' Hughitt in the annual squad of coaches and these two former members of Yost's football teams will doubtless be seconded by others before the end of the week. Each year the old boys come back to assist in brushing up the eleven for its first game and their assistances is generally a big inspiration to the men.")〕 During World War I, he served in the U.S. Army and attended the first training camp at Fort Sheridan. After the war, he became "one of Detroit's most respected attorneys."〔Fine, p. 229.〕
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