THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF NOTABLE AMERICANS, VOLUME X
The Biographical Society, 1904.
GEORGE GROVER WRIGHT
George Grover Wright, senator, was born in Bloomington, Indiana, March 24, 1820. He was
graduated from Indiana University, A.B., 1839, A.M., 1842; studied law with his brother,
Joseph Albright Wright (q.v.), at Rockville, Indiana, and removed to Kesauqua, Iowa, and
was admitted to the bar in 1840. He was married, October 19, 1843, to Hannah M. Dibble;
was prosecuting attorney of Van Buren County, 1847-48; was elected state senator in 1848,
and was defeated for U.S. senator on the Whig ticket in 1852. He was elected chief justice
of the state supreme court in 1855; resigned in 1860, but was appointed to fill a vacancy on
the same bench in 1860, and was elected for the unexpired term that fall; removed to Des
Moines in 1865, and was re-elected, serving 1855-71. He was U.S. senator from Iowa, 1871-77;
declined re-election in 1877. He was president of the Iowa Agricultural Society, 1860-65.
The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Iowa College in 1863; by Iowa
State University in 1894 and by Indiana University in 1866. He died n Des Moines, Iowa,
January 9, 1896.
(
geocities.com/heartland/meadows/8056) (
geocities.com/heartland/meadows) (
geocities.com/heartland)