Jack H. Vaughn
American diplomat (1920–2012)
Summary
Jack Hood Vaughn was the second director of the United States Peace Corps, succeeding Sargent Shriver. Vaughn was appointed Peace Corps director in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson and was the first Republican to head the agency.
Originally created by Reservoirhill
11/20/2007, 2:07:49 PM
Modified
4/25/2026, 3:00:23 AM
Recent revisions
fixing infobox and removing [[Category:Pages using infobox officeholder with deprecated parameters|deprecated parameters]]; Cleaning up syntax using [[:en:User:Zackmann08/scripts/indent|indent.js]]
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v2.05b - [[User:WikiCleanerBot#T20|Bot T20 CW#61]] - Fix errors for [[WP:WCW|CW project]] (Reference before punctuation)
Moving [[:Category:United States Assistant Secretaries of State]] to [[:Category:United States assistant secretaries of state]] per [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy]]
Opinion statement removed
Added a small paragraph about Vaughn's book Kill The Gringo.
/* Boxing career */ Fixed reference date error(s) (see [[:Category:CS1 errors: dates|CS1 errors: dates]] for details) and [[WP:AWB/GF|AWB general fixes]]
Added name of second child, Fixed outdated information about Vaughn's book
/* Peace Corps and the draft */ minor grammatical correction - delete inappropriate use of "and"
Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5
Disambiguating links to [[Okinawa]] (link changed to [[Okinawa Island]]) using [[User:Qwertyytrewqqwerty/DisamAssist|DisamAssist]].
Typo fixes + cleanups, [[WP:AWB/T|typo(s) fixed]]: ’s → 's
added Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
/* Marine officer in World War II */Fixed non-standard capitalization for a degree type instead of name, and corrected missing possessive
Changed “Columbia” to “Colombia”
/* top */Removed [[wikipedia:REFPUNCT|erroneous]] space and [[wikipedia:GENFIX|general fixes]] ([[wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/SdkbBot|task 1]])
[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Check Wikipedia/List of errors#02|CheckWiki error #2]] and/or [[Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser/General fixes|general fixes]]
Added offices to infobox as it is kind of unfair to have the Peace Corps director listed for every other person who held the position and not have it listed for Vaughn
/* Early life and education */replaced: , Montana]] → , Montana]], (2)
