John B. Wright

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John B. Wright (born January 29, 1872 in Denver , Colorado Territory , † July 15, 1934 ) was an American lawyer and politician .

Life

Nothing is known about the youth of John B. Wright. He studied law at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor ( Washtenaw County ). He graduated from there in 1894. He then joined the law practice of his father in Tucson ( Arizona Territory ) at. He then moved to Yuma where he became the Yuma County Territorial District Attorney . After a term he returned to Tucson. In the following years he built up a large legal practice. Wright was named Attorney General of the Arizona Territory in 1909 - a post he held until 1912 when Arizona became a state . His legal practice became one of the largest in Tucson. Wright served on the Tucson School Board between 1906 and 1916. In 1925 he was appointed federal prosecutor - a post he held until 1929. In addition, he continued his legal practice. His work as a federal attorney on the Lotta Crabtree case has brought him national attention. He was married to Mary McPhee (1874–1955). The couple had four children: Jean, Sally, Betty and Charles McPhee († 1975). Wright and his wife are on the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Wheat Ridge ( Colorado buried).

Honors

The Wright Elementary School in Tucson, which was founded in 1954, is named after him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wright Elementary School ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tusdstats.tusd1.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Tucson Unified School District
  2. ^ McMillen, Christian W .: Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory , Yale University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780300143294 , p. 209
  3. ^ Mary McPhee Wright in the Find a Grave database . Accessed April 21, 2016.