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Senate Years of Service: 1801-1806 Party: Democratic Republican
WRIGHT, Robert, (cousin of Turbutt Wright),
a Senator and a Representative from Maryland; born at Narborough,
near Chestertown, Queen Annes County, Md., November 20, 1752; attended the
common schools and Washington College, Chestertown, Md.; studied law; admitted
to the bar in 1773 and commenced practice in Chestertown; served in the
Revolutionary War as private, lieutenant, and later as captain; member, State
house of delegates 1784-1786; member, State senate 1801; elected as a
Democratic Republican to the United States Senate on November 19, 1801, for the
term commencing March 4, 1801, and served until his resignation on November 12,
1806, having been elected Governor; delegate to the Farmers National
Convention in 1803; Governor of Maryland 1806-1809; clerk of Queen Annes County
1810; elected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of John Brown; reelected to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Congresses and served from November 29, 1810, to March 3, 1817; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1816 to the Fifteenth Congress; elected to the
Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1822; district judge of the lower Eastern Shore district of
Maryland from 1823 until his death at Blakeford, Queen Annes County, Md.,
September 7, 1826; interment in the private burying ground of the DeCourcy
family at "Cheston-on-Wye," Queen Annes County, Md.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography.
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