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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Texas / USJames Claude WRIGHT, Jr.
(1922- )
WRIGHT, James Claude, Jr.,
a Representative from Texas; born in Fort Worth, Tarrant County,
Tex., December 22, 1922; attended the public schools of Fort Worth
and Dallas, Tex.; student at Weatherford (Tex.) College, 1939-1940,
and the University of Texas, 1940-1941; enlisted in the United
States Army Air Force in December 1941; commissioned in 1942 and
flew combat missions in the South Pacific; was awarded the
Distinguished Flying Cross; partner in a national trade extension
and advertising firm; member of the Texas State house of
representatives, 1947-1949; mayor of Weatherford, Tex., 1950-1954;
served as president of the League of Texas Municipalities in 1953;
delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1960, 1964, and
1968, and Convention chairman in 1988; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-fourth and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses and served
from January 3, 1955, until his resignation on June 30, 1989;
majority leader (Ninety-fifth through Ninety-ninth Congresses),
Speaker of the House of Representatives (One Hundredth and One
Hundred First Congresses); is a resident of Fort Worth, Tex.
Bibliography
Barry, John. The Ambition and Power. New York: Penguin
Books, 1990; Wright, Jim. Reflections of a Public Man. Fort
Worth: Madison Publishing Company, 1984.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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