John C. Wright (politician, 1783)

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John Crafts Wright (born August 17, 1783 in Wethersfield , Connecticut , †  February 13, 1861 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1823 and 1829 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Wright attended the public schools in his home country and then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. He later moved to Troy, New York State , where he edited the Troy Gazette for several years . After a subsequent law degree in Litchfield and his admission to the bar, he began to work in this profession from 1809 in Steubenville (Ohio). In 1818 he succeeded Samuel Herrick as a federal attorney for the Ohio District. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In 1820 he was elected to the US House of Representatives, but gave up his mandate before the beginning of the legislature. In the 1820s he joined the movement against future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party .

In the congressional elections of 1822 Wright was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the then newly established eleventh constituency of Ohio, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1823. After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1829 . The period after 1825 was marked by heated discussions between the supporters of Andrew Jackson and those of President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay . In 1828 he was not re-elected.

Between 1831 and 1835, John Wright was a judge on the Supreme Court of Ohio . He then moved to Cincinnati , where he edited the Cincinnati Gazette for 13 years . He also became one of the directors of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway Co. In early 1861 he was a member of a negotiating committee that unsuccessfully tried to prevent the outbreak of civil war in the federal capital, Washington . He was even Honorary President of this conference. Wright died in the course of the negotiations on February 13, 1861 and was buried in Cincinnati.

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SURNAME Wright, John C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wright, John Crafts (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1783
PLACE OF BIRTH Wethersfield , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1861
Place of death Washington, DC