Robert Herring Wright

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Robert Herring Wright

| image = Robert H Wright.jpg

| caption =

| title = President of the East Carolina Teachers Training School

| term_start = 1909

| term_end = 1934

| predecessor =

| successor = Leon Renfroe Meadows

| birth_date = {{birth date|1870|5|21}}

| birth_place = Sampson County, North Carolina, United States

| death_place = Greenville, North Carolina, United States

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1934|4|25|1870|5|21}}

| signature = Signature of Robert Herring Wright (1870–1934).png

}}

Robert Herring Wright (May 21, 1870 – April 25, 1934) was the first president of East Carolina Teachers Training School.{{cite web| url=https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/ecu-icons/wright | title=Robert Herring Wright | work=Digital Collections | publisher=East Carolina University | accessdate=29 February 2020 }}{{cite book| url=http://www.docsouth.unc.edu/wwi/wright/bio.html | chapter=Robert Herring Wright | title=Dictionary of North Carolina Biography | editor-first=William S. | editor-last=Powell | date=1979–1996 | publisher=University of North Carolina Press | accessdate=29 February 2020 }}

Wright received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1897 from the University of North Carolina. He completed further education at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. He held many teaching posts until he was asked by Thomas Jordan Jarvis to serve as the first president in 1909. By 1920, Wright successfully lobbied the North Carolina state legislature to approve a four-year curriculum, which forced a re-charter and name change to East Carolina Teachers College. The Wright Building on the main campus at ECU is named for him. He died of a heart attack in 1934.