| Senator Ben Watson M.D., a Republican, w as elected
to the State Senate in 2014. He represents District 1 which
includes portions of Chatham and Liberty Counties and all of
Bryan County.
Sen. Watson is chairman of the Senate Health and Human
Services Committee. He also serves as a member of the
Appropriations, Public Safety and Transportation Committees, as well as an ex officio on the Insurance and Labor
Committee, and the Veterans, Military and Homeland Security Committee.
In 2010, Sen. Watson was elected to represent the islands
district of Savannah in the Georgia House of Representatives. While in the House, he served as the Vice-Chairman
of the Health and Human Services Committee, Secretary of
the Science and Technology Committee and a member of
the Higher Education Committee. In his last two years as a
Representative, he served on the Appropriations Committee
and Health Subcommittee. During his four years in the
House, Sen. Watson was proud to be the only medical doctor to serve in the Georgia House of Representatives.
Sen. Watson has served as a primary care physician in Savannah since 1988. He practices internal medicine with a
specialty in geriatrics.
He is a native of Twin City, Georgia and is a graduate of
Emanuel County Institute and the University of Georgia. He
earned his medical degree from the Medical College of
Georgia.
Sen. Watson and his wife, Bernice, a Savannah-Chatham
Public School teacher, live on Isle of Hope. They have three sons. |