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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | James C. Wright, Jr. |
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Fort Worth, Texas , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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December 22, 1922
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| Died | May 06, 2015
(92 years)
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| Contributor | User 490 |
| Last Modifed | David
Dec 22, 2021 12:58am |
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Caucasian - Married - Air Force - Censured - Presbyterian - Straight -
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| Info | James Claude "Jim" Wright, Jr.
Born in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Tex., December 22, 1922; attended the public schools of Fort Worth and Dallas, Tex.; student at Weatherford (Tex.) College, 1939-1940, and the University of Texas, 1940-1941; enlisted in the United States Army Air Force in December 1941; commissioned in 1942 and flew combat missions in the South Pacific; was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross; partner in a national trade extension and advertising firm; member of the Texas State house of representatives, 1947-1949; mayor of Weatherford, Tex., 1950-1954; served as president of the League of Texas Municipalities in 1953; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968, and Convention chairman in 1988; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1955, until his resignation on June 30, 1989; majority leader (Ninety-fifth through Ninety-ninth Congresses), Speaker of the House of Representatives (One Hundredth and One Hundred First Congresses); is a resident of Fort Worth, Tex.
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