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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWilliam Carter WRIGHT
(1866-1933)
WRIGHT, William Carter, a
Representative from Georgia; born on a farm in Carroll County, Ga.,
January 6, 1866; moved with his parents to Newnan, Coweta County,
Ga., in 1869; attended the common and high schools of Newnan;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1886; lawyer, private
practice; banker; farmer; city attorney for Newnan, Ga., 1892-1895;
solicitor of the city court of Newnan, Ga., 1894-1903; member of
the board of education, 1910-1918; chairman of the Democratic
Georgia state executive committees, 1910 and 1911; elected as a
Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of United States Representative William C. Adamson;
reelected to the Sixty-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses
(January 16, 1918-March 3, 1933); did not seek renomination to the
Seventy-third Congress in 1932; died on June 11, 1933, in Newnan,
Ga.; interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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