George G. Wright

George Grover Wright ( born March 24, 1820 Bloomington, Indiana; † January 11, 1896 in Des Moines, Iowa ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. Senate.

George Wright was educated at private schools and graduated in 1839 from Indiana University in his hometown of Bloomington. He then studied law in Rockville and was admitted to the bar in 1840, after which he began practicing in Keosauqua in the Iowa Territory. After the territory was joined as a State of the Union, Wright served from 1847 to 1848 as a prosecutor in Van Buren County and belonged from 1849 to 1851 the Senate of Iowa. Between 1854 and 1870 he was a judge of the Supreme Court of the State. Moreover, he held from 1860 to 1865 the office of President of the Iowa Agricultural Society.

In 1865, Wright moved to Des Moines. He was one of the founders of the College of Law at the University of Iowa and worked until 1871 as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Iowa State University. This year, he took a after his successful election to the U.S. Senate in Washington, where he held his seat until March 3, 1877; for re-election, he joined not to. As a result, he again worked as a lawyer in Des Moines as well as in the banking industry. From 1887 to 1888, he stood before the American Bar Association.

George Wright died in 1896 in Des Moines. His older brother Joseph was governor of Indiana and sat for this state also in the U.S. Senate.