Hendrick Bradley Wright

Hendrick Bradley Wright

Hendrick Bradley Wright (born April 24, 1808 in Plymouth , Luzerne County , Pennsylvania , †  September 2, 1881 in Wilkes-Barre , Pennsylvania) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1881 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives three times .

Career

Hendrick Wright attended Wilkes-Barre Grammar School and then until 1829 Dickinson College in Carlisle . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1831, he began to work in this profession in Wilkes-Barre. In 1834 he became a district attorney in the local Lucerne County. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1841 and 1843 he sat as a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania , whose speaker he was in 1843 as the successor to James Ross Snowden . Between 1844 and 1860 he took part as a delegate at all Democratic National Conventions . He also exercised this function at the party congresses in 1868 and 1876. In 1850 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress .

In the congressional elections of 1852 Wright was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Galusha A. Grow on March 4, 1853 . Since he was not confirmed in 1854, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1855. This was shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . After the death of Congressman George W. Scranton , Wright was re-elected to Congress, where he took up his new mandate on July 4, 1861. By March 3, 1863 he was able to end the current legislative period.

After the temporary end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Wright practiced again as a lawyer. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was re-elected as a Democrat in the twelfth district of his state in Congress, where he replaced William Henry Stanton on March 4, 1877 . After being re-elected as a candidate for the Greenback Party , to which he had since moved, he could remain in parliament until March 3, 1881. From 1877 to 1879 he was chairman of the crafts committee. In 1880 he was not re-elected. In the same year he unsuccessfully sought the nomination as a presidential candidate for the Greenbackers . He died on September 2, 1881 in Wilkes-Barre, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Hendrick Bradley Wright in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hendrick Bradley Wright in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Galusha A. Grow	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (12th constituency) March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855	Henry Mills Fuller
George W. Scranton	United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (12th constituency) July 4, 1861 - March 3, 1863	Charles Denison
William Henry Stanton	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (12th constituency) March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1881	Joseph A. Scranton