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.[1] He was the 50th President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4]
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.[5] 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.[6]
References
^Fitzgerald's Legislative Manual of New Jersey. Trenton, NJ: John P. Dullard. 1944.
^"Engineers Elect Roy V. Wright". New York Times. 20 November 1930.
^"Engineers Elect Roy V. Wright". New York Times. 20 November 1930.
^"ROY V. WRIGHT, 72, RAILWAY EN6INEER; Editor of Publications in Field Dead--Was State Senator in Jersey in 1941-47". New York Times. 10 July 1948.
