When James Henry Watkins was born on 20 October 1918, in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, his father, Rev Henry Pitman Watkins, was 22 and his mother, Julia Neal "Dudie" Meggs, was 24. He married Mary Katherine Rigby on 24 July 1940, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in United States in 1949 and Yuma, Yuma, Arizona, United States in 1950. He died on 25 December 1980, in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Tucson, Pima, Arizona, United States.
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The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Like most of the country, the economy of Texas suffered greatly after the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Thousands of city workers were suddenly unemployed and relied on a variety of government relief programs; unemployed Mexican citizens were required to take one-way bus tickets to Mexico.
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
English and Welsh: variant of Watkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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