James_A._Wright_(Pennsylvania_politician)

James A. Wright (Pennsylvania politician)

James A. Wright (Pennsylvania politician)

American lawyer and politician

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.

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Biography

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.

Wright was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh and Seventy-eighth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944.

Death

Wright died in 1963.

Sources

  • United States Congress. "James A. Wright (id: W000762)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • The Political Graveyard
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