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WRIGHT, SILAS (1795-1847)

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WRIGHT, See also:SILAS (1795-1847) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born at See also:Amherst, See also:Mass., on the 24th of May 1795. He graduated at See also:Middlebury See also:College, See also:Vermont, in 1815, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1819, and began practice at See also:Canton, in See also:northern New See also:York. He was appointed See also:surrogate of St See also:Lawrence See also:county in 182o, and was successively a member of the See also:state See also:Senate in 1824–1826, a member of the See also:national See also:House of Representatives in 1827–1829, See also:comptroller of the state in 1829–1833, U.S. senator in 1833–1844, and See also:governor of New York in 1844–1846. During his public See also:life he had become a leader of the Democratic party in New York, See also:Martin See also:Van Buren being his closest See also:associate. He was an influential member of the so-called " See also:Albany Regency," a See also:group of Democrats in New York, including such men as J. A. See also:Dix and W. L. See also:Marcy, who for many years virtually controlled their party within the state. Wright's integrity in See also:office was illustrated in 1845, when the " See also:anti-See also:rent troubles " (see NEw YORK) See also:broke out and it seemed probable that the votes of the disaffected would decide the coming See also:election. The governor asked and obtained from the legislature the See also:power to suppress the disturbance by armed force, and put an end to what was really an insurrection. When the national Democratic party in 1844 nominated and elected See also:James K.

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Polk to the See also:presidency, instead of Martin Van Buren, Wright and the state organization took an attitude of, armed See also:neutrality towards the new See also:administration. Renominated for governor in 1846, Wright was defeated, and the result was by many ascribed in See also:part to the alleged hostility of the Polk administration. He died at Canton on the 27th of See also:August 1847. The best See also:biography is that by J. D. See also:Hammond, Life and Times of Silas Wright (See also:Syracuse, N.Y., 1848), which was republished as vol. iii. of that author's Political See also:History of New York.

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