Background
Fielding L. Wright was born on May 16, 1895, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, the son of Henry James Wright and Fannie Clements.
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Fielding L. Wright was born on May 16, 1895, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, the son of Henry James Wright and Fannie Clements.
Wright attended the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, then earned a law degree from the University of Alabama.
He was admitted to the Mississippi bar and, with an uncle, began a practice that was interrupted by his enlistment as a private in the U. S. Army. He served in France from September 1918 to July 1919, then returned to Mississippi to practice law, play semiprofessional baseball, and organize and captain Company B of the 106th Engineers of the Mississippi National Guard — a commission he resigned in 1928, when he was elected to the Mississippi state senate. The bifactionalism in the Mississippi Democratic party had historically pitted the "black belt" Mississippi Delta planters against the Populist highland whites. Wright represented the former in the tradition of "business progressivism" that opposed the racial demagoguery of Governor Theodore Bilbo and championed the attraction of industry to Mississippi, the construction of farm-to-market roads, increased expenditures for education (including black schools), and levying a sales tax to bolster the imperiled credit rating of the state. He could not run for reelection in 1932 because Sharkey, his home county, shared its senator with an adjacent county on an alternating basis, so he was elected state representative instead. He worked so closely with Speaker Thomas Bailey that when Bailey's successor as speaker died in 1936, Wright's colleagues unanimously elected him to fill the vacancy. At the end of his second term in the Mississippi house (1940), Wright retired from politics and returned to private practice in Vicksburg. In 1943, Bailey ran for governor and Wright was nominated and elected lieutenant governor on the same ticket. When Bailey died in November 1946, Wright became acting governor. In 1947 he was elected to a full four-year term as governor. In his inaugural address on January 20, 1948, Wright sounded a call for revolt against President Harry S. Truman and the national Democratic party for encouraging the proposals of the Committee on Civil Rights, especially in regard to black voting and employment rights and federal protection from lynching that the Truman-appointed committee had called for in October 1947. Wright regarded the proposals as "aimed to wreck the South and our institutions, " and called for a break with the national Democratic party because "vital principles and eternal truths transcend party lines, and the day is now at hand when determined action must be taken. " On February 2, 1948, Truman nevertheless recommended that Congress enact some of the proposals. Wright carried his crusade to the meeting of the Southern Governors' Conference in Wakulla Springs, Florida, where a committee chaired by South Carolina Governor J. Strom Thurmond was appointed to persuade Truman (who refused to meet with them) and Democratic national chairman J. Howard McGrath to back away from the civil rights proposals. In May, Wright sponsored a states' rights conference of "all true white Jeffersonian Democrats" in Jackson, Mississippi. He was temporary chairman and Thurmond was keynote speaker. When the Democratic National Convention nominated Truman for president, Wright staged a walk-out of the Mississippi delegation and called for a states' rights Democratic convention in Birmingham, Alabama, where on July 17 he was nominated for the vice-presidency and Thurmond for the presidency. The Dixiecrat strategy was to deny Truman a majority of 266 electoral votes and throw the election into the House of Representatives, but the party got on the ballot in only thirteen states and won only the thirty-nine electoral votes (1, 176, 125 popular votes) of South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana, and one from Tennessee. Unlike the "Hoovercrat" bolt of 1928, which was an Upper South revolt against Catholic Al Smith, the Dixiecrat revolt was primarily a Deep South protest by racially conservative "black belt" whites. Wright failed in a gubernatorial comeback bid in the 1955 Democratic primary.
Fielding L. Wright died on May 4, 1956, in Rolling Fork, Mississippi.
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Fielding L. Wright was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1948, Wright was nominated as the candidate for vice-president of the segregationist States' Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats).
Fielding L. Wright was a Member of the Mississippi Senate and of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
On July 16, 1917, Fielding L. Wright married Nan Kelly, his childhood sweetheart. The couple had two children.