Horace Worth Vaughan

Horace Worth Vaughan (December 2, 1867 – November 10, 1922) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician. He represented Texas in the United States House of Representatives and the Texas Senate. In 1916, he was appointed as a judge of the United States District Court for the Territory of Hawaii, where he lived the rest of his life.

Early life Vaughan was born to attorney George T. Vaughan and his wife Tippah Leary Vaughan, on December 2, 1867, in Marion County, Texas. He was of English ancestry, descended from early Jamestown, Virginia, settler John Vaughn. He married Pearl Lockett in 1888. They were the parents of Aileen, Robert Louis and Jean.

He was mostly self-taught, by reading his father's books. He was admitted to the bar in 1885, and began an active practice the next year.

Texas From 1890 to 1898, he was city attorney for Texarkana, Texas. Due to Vaughan's personal conviction that prohibition should be decided at the state level, he was defeated in his 1914 bid for re-election by Eugene Black, who made Vaughn's prohibition stance a campaign issue. He was buried in Oahu Cemetery. Pearl Vaughan died in 1960.

Oldest daughter Aileen V. Eppler (1890–1976) was the wife of Texas financial consultant William E. Eppler. At some point, the Eppler family moved to New Jersey where Aileen died at age 85.

Youngest daughter Jean Vaughan Gilbert (1904–1975) was one of the first women lawyers in Hawaii, and became city attorney of Honolulu. She died in 1975 in Honolulu.

Fraternal memberships Freemasons Odd Fellows Woodmen of the World