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Hendrick Wright was born on April 24, 1808, at Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the first child of Joseph Wright and Ellen Hendrick. His father, descended from John Wright, who emigrated from England in 1681 with William Penn, was a farmer and merchant, was widely read and, despite a profession of the principles of the Society of Friends, inordinately fond of poetry and the theatre. His mother came from Connecticut.
Hendrick helped on the farm, attended the public schools, and in 1824 entered the Wilkes-Barre Academy, where he excelled in scholarship, public speaking, and theatricals. In May 1829 he entered Dickinson College, but never secured a degree.
Early in 1831 he returned to Wilkes-Barre, entered the law office of John N. Conyngham, and on November 8 was admitted to the bar. His success was astonishingly rapid, for within a few months he had clients throughout northeastern Pennsylvania; they "believed and said that no jury could resist him". As an ardent Jacksonian Democrat he became a colonel of militia and in 1834 was appointed district attorney for Luzerne County by George M. Dallas. He was soon the leader of the faction opposed to the leadership of Andrew Beaumont. He was elected to the lower house of the state legislature in 1841, 1842, and 1843, and in the last year served as speaker. His legislative service was characterized by aid to new railroad corporations, internal improvements, and such social reforms as the repeal of the law for imprisonment of debtors. He was elected chairman of the Democratic convention of 1844 in Baltimore by the opponents of Van Buren. Wright's prominence on this occasion led him to secure the secret support of Henry A. P. Muhlenberg for a seat in the United States Senate, but Muhlenberg's untimely death and Wright's failure to secure a complimentary nomination for Congress sent these hopes glimmering. He then looked to Polk for some office, preferably that of collector of the port of Philadelphia, but Polk ignored him. Wright blamed James Buchanan for this, perhaps rightly, but his open break with Buchanan did not come until 1857, when Buchanan failed to reward him for his part in the campaign of 1856. Defeated in 1850 and 1854, he was elected to the national House of Representatives in 1852, and again, as a War Democrat, in 1860, having been nominated by both the Democratic and Republican parties. He made a speech in reply to Clement L. Vallandigham on January 14, 1863, that was quoted enthusiastically by Northern papers, but in 1864, dissatisfied with the changed objects of the war, he supported George Brinton McClellan for president. On his return to private life in 1863 he began to publish in the Anthracite Monitor, a labor organ, a series of articles which were subsequently published in book form as A Practical Treatise on Labor (1871). This was an obvious bid for labor support and marked the beginning of his progressive abandonment of the old Democratic party. He was nominated by the Democrats for Congress in 1876, and 1878, but it was largely due to the labor and Greenback element that he was elected. At last, in 1880, he forsook the Democratic party for the support of these factions and was defeated. His last years in Congress were devoted to an unsuccessful effort to secure loans for homesteaders on public lands. Wright was widely read but unscholarly. He was also wealthy, but his philanthropy, illustrated in the annual distribution of thousands of loaves of bread, was inevitably associated with his political aspirations.
Hendrick Bradley Wright died on September 2, 1881, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and was interred in Hollenback Cemetery.
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Hendrick Bradley Wright belonged to the Democratic Party until 1880. Then Hendrick Wright became a member of the Greenback Party.
Hendrick Bradley Wright was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district and member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
On August 21, 1835, Hendrick Bradley Wright married Mary Ann Bradley Robinson and had ten children, of whom five survived him.
Ellen Hendrick was married to Moses Wadhams, by whom she had a daughter, Phebe Wadhams. Her second husband was Joseph Wright, the couple had several children.
