Horace Worth Vaughan

Horace Worth Vaughan

Horace Worth Vaughan (born December 2, 1867 in Jefferson , Texas , †  November 10, 1922 in Honolulu , Hawaii ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives ; later he became a federal judge .

Career

Horace Vaughan attended the public schools in Linden . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1885, he began to work in Texarkana in this profession. Between 1890 and 1898 he was the legal representative of this city; from 1898 to 1910 he served as a prosecutor in various counties in Texas. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1910 he was elected to the State Senate. In the 1912 congressional election , Vaughn was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Texas , where he succeeded Morris Sheppard on March 4, 1913 . Since he was not confirmed in 1914, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1915 .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Horace Vaughan was appointed Attorney General for Honolulu in the Territory of Hawaii by President Woodrow Wilson . He held this office between December 1915 and March 1916. After that he was from May 15, 1916 to April 4, 1922 judge at the Federal District Court for Hawaii. On November 10, 1922, Vaughan was found at his Honolulu home with a fatal gunshot wound and a gun beside him. The authorities assumed suicide. He was married to Pearl Lockett, with whom he had three children.

Web links

• Horace Worth Vaughan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Horace Worth Vaughan in the database of Find a Grave (English)