Career
He represented Victoria County from 1856 to 1861 and the city of Saint John from 1861 to 1865. He was born and was educated in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son of Thomas Watters and Eleanor Toole, both immigrants from Ireland. He studied law with William Johnston Ritchie and was called to the bar in 1847.
Watters was named a county court judge in 1867 and judge in the vice admiralty court in 1876.
