Abner Wright

{{Short description|Chicago businessman}}

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Abner M. Wright was an American businessman associated with the city of Chicago. Wright served as a member of the Chicago Board of Trade,{{cite book |last1=Lindberg |first1=Richard C. |title=The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago's Democratic Machine |date=2009 |publisher=SIU Press |isbn=978-0-8093-8654-3 |pages= 102–104 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=IUgbMFn6nCYC |access-date=19 May 2020 |language=en}} and served as its president in 1886 and 1887.{{cite book |year=1915 |title=Annual Report of the Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Volume 57 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2rUXAQAAIAAJ |access-date=February 17, 2024 |website= |publisher=Chicago Board of Trade |via=Google Books}}

Wright stood opposed to gambling interests which had partnered themselves with telegraph companies. Wright, at one point, "forcibly removed the instruments of the Postal Telegraph Company and the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company from the floor of the exchange, literally throwing their equipment out of the building."{{cite web |date=March 27, 2014 |title=Partners in Crime: The Telegraph Industry, Finance Capitalism, and Organized Gambling, 1870-1920 |url=http://www.academia.edu/1682286/Partners_in_Crime_The_Telegraph_Industry_Finance_Capitalism_and_Organized_Gambling_1870-1920 |access-date=February 17, 2024 |website=Academia.edu}}{{cite web|url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/93/2/335/830224/Where-the-Common-People-Could-Speculate-The-Ticker?redirectedFrom=PDF|title=“Where the Common People Could Speculate”: The Ticker, Bucket Shops, and the Origins of Popular Participation in Financial Markets, 1880–1920|website=The Journal of American History|date=May 2, 2017 |access-date=February 17, 2024}}

Wright was the unsuccessful Republican Party nominee in the 1879 Chicago mayoral election.