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James Claude Wright

Contents 1 Personal 2 Career Highlights 3 Fun Facts! 4 External Links

Personal

Born: December 22, 1922; Fort Worth, Texas
Education: public schools for Fort Worth and Dallas; attended Weatherford (TX) College, 1939-40; University of Texas, 1940-41

Career Highlights

• Enlisted, U.S. Army Air Force, 1941; commissioned 1942
• Flew combat missions in South Pacific
• Winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross
• Texas state house of representatives, 1947-49
• Mayor, Weatherford, TX, 1950-54
• U.S. House of Representatives, 1958-89
• House Majority Leader, 1977-87
• Speaker of the House, 1987-89

Fun Facts!

• Forced from the Speakership under an ethics cloud, largely driven (some would say "manufactured") by Newt Gingrich, then a Republican backbencher -- it was this deliberate effort to discredit Wright that first raised Gingrich into the national spotlight

External Links

• WRIGHT, James Claude, Jr. from Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present