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WRIGHT, CARROLL DAVIDSON (1840-1909)

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WRIGHT, See also:CARROLL See also:DAVIDSON (1840-1909) , See also:American statistician, was See also:born at Dunbarton, New See also:Hampshire, on the 25th of See also:July 1840. He began to study See also:law in 186o, but in 1862 enlisted as a private in a New Hampshire volunteer See also:regiment. He became See also:colonel in 1864, and served as assistant-adjutantgeneral of a See also:brigade in the See also:Shenandoah Valley See also:campaign. He was admitted to the New Hampshire See also:bar after the See also:war, and in 1867 became a member of the See also:Massachusetts and See also:United States bars. From 1872 to 1873 he served in the See also:Senate of.Massachusetts, and from 1873 to 1878 he was See also:chief of the Massachusetts See also:Bureau of See also:Statistics of Labor. He was U.S. See also:commissioner of labour from 1885 to 1905, and in 1893 was placed in See also:charge of the See also:Eleventh See also:Census. In 1894 he was chairman of the See also:commission which investigated the See also:great railway strike of See also:Chicago, and in 1902 was a member of the See also:Anthracite Strike Commission. He was honorary See also:professor of social See also:economics in the See also:Catholic university of See also:America from 1895 to 1904; in 1900 became professor of statistics and social economics in Columbian (now See also:George See also:Washington) University, from 1900 to 1901 was university lecturer on wage statistics at Harvard, and in 1903 was a member of the See also:special See also:committee appointed to revise the labour See also:laws of Massachusetts. In 1902 he was chosen See also:president of See also:Clark See also:College, See also:Worcester, See also:Mass., where he was also professor of statistics and social economics from 1904 until his See also:death. Dr Wright was president of the American Association for the See also:Advancement of See also:Science in 1903, and in 1907 received the See also:Cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour for his See also:work in improving See also:industrial conditions, a similar honour having been conferred upon him in 1906 by the See also:Italian See also:government. He died on the loth of See also:February 1909. His publications include The Factory See also:System of the United States (188o) ; Relation of See also:Political See also:Economy to the Labor Question (1882); See also:History of See also:Wages and Prices in Massachusetts, 1752—1883 (1885) ; The Industrial See also:Evolution of the United States (1887); Outline of See also:Practical See also:Sociology (1899); Battles of Labor (1906); and numerous See also:pamphlets and monographs on social and economic topics.

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