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WRIGHT, SILAS (1795-1847)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 847 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WRIGHT, SILAS (1795-1847) , American political leader, was born at Amherst, Mass., on the 24th of May 1795. He graduated at Middlebury College,
Vermont
 , in 1815, was admitted to the bar in 1819, and began practice at Canton, in northern New
York
 . He was appointed surrogate of St Lawrence county in 182o, and was successively a member of the state Senate in 18241826, a member of the national
House
  of Representatives in 18271829, comptroller of the state in 18291833,
U.S. senator in 18331844, and
governor
  of New
York
  in 18441846. During his public life he had become a leader of the Democratic party in New York, Martin Van Buren being his closest associate. He was an influential member of the so-called " Albany Regency," a group of Democrats in New York, including such men as J. A. Dix and W. L. Marcy, who for many years virtually controlled their party within the state.
Wright
 's integrity in office was illustrated in 1845, when the " anti-rent troubles " (see NEw YORK) broke out and it seemed probable that the votes of the disaffected would decide the coming election. The
governor
  asked and obtained from the legislature the 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 James K. Polk to the presidency, instead of Martin Van Buren,
Wright
  and the state organization took an attitude of, armed neutrality towards the new administration. Renominated for governor in 1846, Wright was defeated, and the result was by many ascribed in part to the alleged hostility of the Polk administration. He died at Canton on the 27th of August 1847.
The best biography is that by J. D.
Hammond
 , Life and Times of Silas Wright (Syracuse, N.Y., 1848), which was republished as vol. iii. of that author's Political History of New York.


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