Background
Wright, Hendrick Bradley was born on April 24, 1808 in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Wright, Hendrick Bradley was born on April 24, 1808 in Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States.
He attended the Wilkes-Barre Grammar School and was graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1829. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
He was appointed district attorney for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 1834. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1844, 1848, 1852, 1856, 1860, 1868, and 1876. United States House of Representatives
Wright was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1850.
He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854. He was again elected to the Thirty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George West. Scranton.
He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth Congress and reelected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-sixth Congress. He was chairman of the United States House Committee on Manufactures during the Forty-fifth Congress.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1880 and was unsuccessful in getting the Greenback nomination for President the same year, losing to James Weaver.
He died in Wilkes-Barre in 1881. He is interned in Hollenback Cemetery.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1841 to 1843 and served the last year as speaker.