James A. Wright (Pennsylvania politician)
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James Assion Wright (August 11, 1902 – November 7, 1963) was an American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served two terms in the U.S. Congress from 1941 to 1945.
Biography
[edit]Wright was born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania on August 11, 1902. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1923 and from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1927.
He served as assistant county solicitor of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1941.
Congress
[edit]Wright was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944.
Death
[edit]Wright died in Scott Township on November 7, 1963 at the age of 61. His body was interred at Holy Souls Cemetery in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.
Sources
[edit]- United States Congress. "James A. Wright (id: W000762)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- The Political Graveyard
- 1902 births
- 1963 deaths
- College of the Holy Cross alumni
- Pennsylvania lawyers
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law alumni
- People from Carnegie, Pennsylvania
- 20th-century American lawyers
- 20th-century American legislators