Vaughan, Horace Worth
United States congressman from the first district of Texas, 
was born Dec. 2, 1867,in Bowie County, Tex. He has been 
city attorney, county attorney, district attorney 
and a member of the State Senate. He was elected to the 
sixty-third congress for the term of 1913-15; and resides 
in Texarkana, Tex. 

VAUGHAN, Horace Worth, a Representative from Texas; born 
near Jefferson, Marion County, Tex., December 2, 1867; attended 
the common schools of Linden, Cass County, Tex.; studied law; was 
admitted to the bar in 1885 and commenced practice in Texarkana, 
Tex., in 1886; city attorney of Texarkana 1890-1898; prosecuting 
attorney of Bowie County 1898-1906; district attorney for the fifth 
judicial district of Texas 1906-1910; member of the State senate in 
1910; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 
1913-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 
to the Sixty-fourth Congress; appointed by President Woodrow Wilson 
as United States district attorney at Honolulu, Hawaii, and served 
from December 22, 1915, to March 22, 1916; United States district 
judge in Hawaii from May 15, 1916, to April 4, 1922; died in Honolulu, 
Hawaii, November 10, 1922; interment in Nuuanu Cemetery.


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