Seaborn Wright
{{short description|American politician}}
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| birth_place = Floyd County, Georgia
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| death_place = Milledgeville, Georgia
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Seaborn Wright (November 30, 1857 – December 15, 1933) was an attorney and politician in the U.S. state of Georgia. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from Rome, Georgia. He supported prohibition.{{cite web | url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053488/1900-10-25/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=01%2F01%2F1885¬text=&date2=12%2F31%2F1902&words=Crawford+Lectured&searchType=advanced&sequence=0&index=5&proxdistance=2&sort=date_asc&rows=12&ortext=&proxtext=%22lectured+crawford%22&=&=&=&=&=&=&=&andtext=&page=4 | title=Walker County messenger. (LaFayette, Ga.) 187?-current, October 25, 1900, Page 4, Image 4 « Georgia Historic Newspapers }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=owfkLL-gvXAC&q=seaborn+wright&pg=PA90|title=Democracy Restored: A History of the Georgia State Capitol|first1=Timothy|last1=Crimmins|first2=Anne H.|last2=Farrisee|date=September 20, 2007|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=9780820329116|via=Google Books}} He was a third party candidate for governor. He was a strident prohibitionist.
In 1907 he wrote to Thomas Edward Watson.{{cite web | url=https://docsouth.unc.edu/watson/index.php/item/755_057_065_01 | title=The Thomas e. Watson Papers Digital Collection : Item View }}
In 1908 he was billed as a Southern orator and fighter for clean government in a newspaper notice promoting him as a speaker for a campaign rally in Grand Junction, Colorado.{{Cite web|url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=DSL19081020-01.2.31&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------|title=The Daily Sentinel (Grand Junction) October 20, 1908 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection}}
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Category:People from Rome, Georgia
Category:Members of the Georgia House of Representatives
Category:Georgia (U.S. state) Prohibitionists
Category:20th-century members of the Georgia General Assembly