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See also:SILAS See also:WRIGHT (1795-1847)
, See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born at See also:Amherst, See also:Mass., on the 24th of May 1795
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He graduated at See also:Middlebury See also:College, See also:Vermont, in 1815, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1819, and began practice at See also:Canton, in See also:northern New See also:York
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He was appointed See also:surrogate of St See also:Lawrence See also:county in 182o, and was successively a member of the See also:state See also:Senate in 1824–1826, a member of the See also:national See also:House of Representatives in 1827–1829, See also:comptroller of the state in 1829–1833,
U.S. senator in 1833–1844, and See also:governor of New York in 1844–1846
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During his public See also:life he had become a leader of the Democratic party in New York, See also: See also:Polk to the See also:presidency, instead of Martin Van Buren, Wright and the state organization took an attitude of, armed See also:neutrality towards the new See also:administration . Renominated for governor in 1846, Wright was defeated, and the result was by many ascribed in See also:part to the alleged hostility of the Polk administration . He died at Canton on the 27th of See also:August 1847 . The best See also:biography is that by J . D . See also:Hammond, Life and Times of See also:Silas Wright (See also:Syracuse, N.Y., 1848), which was republished as vol. iii. of that author's Political See also:History of New York . |
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