George F. Wright

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{see also|George Frederick Wright}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Unreliable sources|date=March 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name=George F. Wright

|image=George F. Wright (vol. 2, 1921).jpg

|caption=

|order1 = 5th

|office1 = Mayor of Honolulu{{!}}Mayor of City & County of Honolulu

|term_start1 = January 3, 1931

|term_end1 = July 2, 1938

|predecessor1 = John H. Wilson

|successor1 = Charles Crane

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|4|23}}

|birth_place = Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii

|death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1938|7|2|1881|4|23}}

|death_place = aboard the SS Mariposa

|party = Republican

|alma_mater =

|restingplace =

|spouse = May Martha Lycett

|children = Marshall Wright

|parents = William Wilson Wright and Annie Marshall Wright

|occupation = Surveyor

}}

George Frederick Wright (April 23, 1881 – July 2, 1938) was Mayor of Honolulu from 1931 to 1938.{{cite book|editor-last=White|editor-first=James Terry|chapter=Wright, George Frederick|title=The National Cyclopaedia of American biography|chapter-url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015078229260&view=2up&seq=495|date=1955|publisher=James T. White & Co.|page=245|editor-link=James_Terry_White |volume=45 |location=New York |title-link=The_National_Cyclopaedia_of_American_Biography}} Politically he was Republican.{{cite web | title=Mayors of U.S. Cities A - L | url=http://www.worldstatesmen.org/US_Mayors.html#Honolulu | website=worldstatesmen.org | date= August 11, 2010 | access-date=2023-03-07|last=Cahoon |first=Ben |publisher=World Statesmen.org}}{{cite book|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|year=1977|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington, DC|page=55|title-link=United_States_Congressional_Serial_Set

}}

Born in Honolulu, George Frederick Wright was the son of William Wilson Wright (1846–1921), a carriage-maker, and Annie (née Marshall) Wright (1847–1916). Both his parents were English, his mother was born in Darlington{{cite news |title= Came To Hawaii During Days of Royal Regime|work= Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date= March 3, 1916 |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014682/1916-03-03/ed-1/seq-4/|author= |page=4|access-date=2023-03-07|via=Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress}} while his father was originally from Langton; the couple had lived in Australia and New Zealand prior to settling down in Hawaii in 1880. He attended the old Fort Street School and graduated from Honolulu High School in 1898. Wright worked as a governmental surveyor and engineer and with his brother Stanley Wright were members of the business firm of Wright, Harvey & Wright.{{cite book|editor-last=Nellist|editor-first=George Ferguson Mitchell|chapter=Wright, William Wilson January 1846 – 1921|title=The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/hi/statewide/bios/wright69bs.txt |year= 1925 |page=unspecified|author= |publisher=Honolulu Star-Bulletin}}{{cite web |url=http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/import/import/Government%20Office%20Holders%20-%20Name%20IMJ/W/Wright,%20George%20Fred.jpg |title=Wright, George Fred office record |work=State archives digital collections |publisher=State of Hawaii |access-date=July 14, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717033224/http://archives1.dags.hawaii.gov/gsdl/collect/governme/import/import/Government%20Office%20Holders%20-%20Name%20IMJ/W/Wright%2C%20George%20Fred.jpg |archive-date=July 17, 2014 }} He enlisted in the National Guard and during the First World War served on a local coastal artillery unit.

Wright became Mayor of Honolulu in 1931. He died in office in 1938 while traveling aboard the SS Mariposa. Memorials to him were installed at a downtown housing project and at Washington Middle School in the Pāwaʻa section of the city.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}

Mayor Wright was married to May Martha Lycett in 1905.{{cite book|editor-last=Siddall|editor-first=John William|title=Men of Hawaii|volume=2|url=https://archive.org/details/menofhawaiibiogr00sidd |year= 1921 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/menofhawaiibiogr00sidd/page/443/mode/1up

|chapter=Wright, George Fred.|publisher=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|author= |location=Territory of Hawaii |pages=443, 447}} Their son, Marshall Frederick Wright lived in Honolulu with his wife, Caroline Card Wright. They raised three children (Marsha, Byron, Fred).{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}