Augustus Romaldus Wright

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Augustus Romaldus Wright

Augustus Romaldus Wright (born June 16, 1813 in Wrightsboro , Columbia County , Georgia , † March 31, 1891 in Rome , Georgia) was an American politician who represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives and the Confederate Congress .

Life

Wright attended Appling public schools , grammar school , Franklin College, and the University of Georgia at Athens . He then studied law at the Law School in Litchfield , received in 1835 admitted to the bar and then practiced in Crawfordsville . He then moved to Cassville the following year . He then served from 1842 until his resignation in 1849 as a judge at the District Court ( Superior Court ) of the Cherokee District before he returned to his practice as a lawyer. He moved to Rome in 1855 and continued to work as a lawyer.

politics

He decided in 1857 to embark on a political career by being elected as a Democrat to the 35th Congress , where he was active from March 4, 1857 to March 3, 1859. He was then a delegate to Georgia's Secession Convention , where he spoke out against secession, and the Confederate Secession Convention. President Lincoln offered him the provisional governorship of Georgia, but he declined. Wright was a member of the Provisional Confederate Congress , as well as the First Confederate Congress . During the American Civil War he set up the Wrights Legion, which was drafted with the 38th Georgia Infantry . After the war he returned to his practice as a lawyer in Rome. He was also a member of Georgia's constitutional convention in 1877.

Augustus Romaldus Wright died on March 31, 1891 at home in "Glenwood", later part of the Berry School, near Rome. He was buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery.

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personal data
SURNAME Wright, Augustus Romaldus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Wrightsboro , Columbia County , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1891
Place of death near Rome , Georgia