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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TexasWRIGHT, James Claude, 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.
Barry, John. The Ambition and Power.
New York: Penguin Books, 1990
Lyman, Marshall. Stories I Never Told the Speaker: The Chaotic Adventures of a Capitol Hill Aide.
Dallas: Three Forks Press, 1998.
Wright, Jim. Balance of Power: Presidents and Congress from the Era of McCarthy to the Age of Gingrich
. Atlanta: Turner Pub., 1996.
Wright, Jim. The Coming Water Famine.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1966.
———. “Legislation and the Will of God.” Congress and Conscience
. Edited by John B. Anderson. (New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1970): 21-50.
———. Reflections of a Public Man.
Fort Worth: Madison Publishing Company, 1984.
———. Worth It All: My War for Peace.
Washington: Brassey’s, 1993.
———. You and Your Congressman.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1965.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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