Roy V. Wright
{{short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Roy V. Wright
| image=WrightRoy.jpg
| birth_name = Royden Vincent Wright
| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|10|8}}
| birth_place = Red Wing, Minnesota, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1948|7|9|1876|10|8}}
| death_place = East Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
| office = Member of the New Jersey Senate
from Essex County
| termstart = January 1942
| termend = January 1948
| predecessor = Homer C. Zink
| successor = Alfred C. Clapp
| office2 = Essex County Freeholder
| termstart2 = January 1935
| termend2 = January 1938
|party= Republican
|occupation= Engineer
|residence= East Orange, New Jersey
|alma_mater= University of Minnesota
|spouse= Eliza Grumman Bratton (1879-1962)
}}
Royden Vincent (Roy) Wright (October 8, 1876 – July 9, 1948) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey State Senate.
Early life
Wright was born October 8, 1876, in Red Wing, Minnesota, the son of Reuben Andrus Wright (1851–1927) and Louisa Anna Schaefer Wright (1855-1945). He attended public schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was an 1898 graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He moved to East Orange, New Jersey, in 1904.
Wright was a Director and Vice President of the Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corporation.{{cite book|title=Fitzgerald's Legislative Manual of New Jersey|date=1944|publisher=John P. Dullard|location=Trenton, NJ}} He was the 50th President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.{{cite news|title=Engineers Elect Roy V. Wright.|work=New York Times|date=20 November 1930}} He also served as Managing Editor of Railway Age, an American trade journal for the rail transport industry, from 1911 until his death in 1948.{{cite news|title=Engineers Elect Roy V. Wright.|work=New York Times|date=20 November 1930}}
Political career
Wright became active in politics in the 1920s and was a member of the national Engineers Committee for Herbert Hoover in the 1928 presidential campaign.{{cite news|title=ROY V. WRIGHT, 72, RAILWAY EN6INEER; Editor of Publications in Field Dead--Was State Senator in Jersey in 1941-47|work=New York Times|date=10 July 1948}}
He was elected to the Essex County Board of Freeholders in 1934 and served one three-year term. He was elected Republican State Committeeman from Essex County in 1940 and served one three-year term.
In 1941, Homer C. Zink resigned from the State Senate following his appointment by the Legislature as the New Jersey State Controller. Wright became a candidate for State Senator.{{cite web|title=Results of the Primary Election|url=http://www.njelections.org/1920-1970-results/1941-primary-election.pdf|website=New Jersey Division of Elections|accessdate=10 January 2015}} In November, 1941, he defeated Democrat J. Raymond Berry. He was re-elected in 1944 against Democrat Edward J. Gilhooly. He was not a candidate for re-election in 1947.
Death
Wright died of a heart ailment on July 9, 1948, at age 72.{{cite news|title=ROY V. WRIGHT, 72, RAILWAY EN6INEER; Editor of Publications in Field Dead--Was State Senator in Jersey in 1941-47|work=New York Times|date=10 July 1948}}
References
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{{Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers|state=collapsed}}
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Category:People from Red Wing, Minnesota
Category:Republican Party New Jersey state senators
Category:Politicians from East Orange, New Jersey
Category:University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni
Category:Presidents of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers