He was a direct descendent of Oliver Cromwell, through his father, Thomas G. Worsley, who had immigrated from Lancashire, England at the age of 16, and moved to Wisconsin.
His father was a pioneer farmer, who married Marie Shields, who had moved to the United States from Queens County, Ireland.
[6] In 1895, while living in Yorkville, Wisconsin, Worsley wrote a book titled, Corporation Rats in Our National Corn Crib, which dealt with finances from the perspective of the People's Party philosophy.
[16] In August 1911, it was expected that Worsley would run for the state attorney general slot, under the Democrats' ticket.
[22] Worsley's belief was that the most important mission of the first legislature was to codify in law the statutes outlined in the state constitution.
[24] Like his fellow Pima Democrat, John T. Hughes, Worsley supported an amendment to the state constitution granting women's suffrage.
[25] When House Bill Number 77 came before the senate education committee, of which Worsley was a part, it included a provision for the segregation of black children.
[27] In the first special session of the legislature, Worsley co-authored a bill with C. M. Roberts to put forth an amendment which would abolish the state senate.
[28] He espoused his arguments in favor of the amendment in a long letter to the editor in The Arizona Republican in June 1912.
[29] As early as June 1913, prognosticators were speculating that Worsley would challenge Hunt for the gubernatorial nomination in the Democrat primary in 1914.
[34] Hunt was so concerned that he began a fifth column campaign to get Worsley to run for the U.S. Senate seat instead of the governor's position.
[35] In February, sources told the newspapers that Worsley was no longer considering the governorship, but would instead run for the Democrat nomination for the U. S. House of Representatives seat, against inclumbent Carl Hayden.
[38][39] In 1916 Worsley re-entered politics by announcing he would challenge Carl Hayden for the Democrat nomination for Arizona's congressional seat.
In 1898, Drachman had been a member of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, during which time he had contracted a fever, the effects of which plagued him for the remainder of his life.
He had been in Denver, Colorado with his mother, but returned home to Tucson the week prior, where his health declined rapidly, finally ending in his death from an aneurism.
Shortly after the crime, Padillas was subdued by Mexican police, who transported him back to Sonora, where he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to two years in prison.
[59][60] After the Bisbee Deportations in 1917, Worsley worked pro bono for hundreds of the deportees, and succeeded in getting them cash settlements from the mining company.
[61] Worsley was normally a defense attorney, but when Cochise County prosecutor R. N. French was taken ill during the jury selection process in the Henry A. Wootten trial, which was part of the second round of trials associated with the Bisbee Deportation incident, Worsley was named to succeed him as prosecutor.