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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaAugustus Romaldus WRIGHT
(1813-1891)
WRIGHT, Augustus Romaldus,
a Representative from Georgia; born in Wrightsboro, Ga., June 16,
1813; attended the public schools at Appling, Ga., the grammar
school, Franklin College, and the University of Georgia at Athens;
studied law at Litchfield (Conn.) Law School; was admitted to the
bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Crawfordville, Ga., moving
the following year to Cassville; served as judge of the superior
courts of the Cherokee circuit from 1842 until he resigned in 1849
to resume the practice of law; moved to Rome, Ga., in 1855 and
continued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the
Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1859); delegate to
Georgia Secession Convention (opposing secession) and to the
Confederate Secession Convention; offered provisional governorship
of Georgia by President Lincoln, but declined; served as a member
of the Confederate Congress; during the Civil War organized
Wright’s Legion, which was mustered in with the Thirty-eighth
Georgia Infantry; after the Civil War resumed the practice of law
at Rome, Ga.; member of the Georgia Constitutional Convention of
1877; died March 31, 1891, at his home “Glenwood,”
later a part of the Berry School, near Rome, Ga.; interment in
Myrtle Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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