]> http://www.molinu.org/taxonomy/term/23249/0 Auto generated by aggregator2 autotaxonomy en http://www.molinu.org/benjamin_d_wright <p><hr /> <div><b>Benjamin D. Wright</b> was a Florida Lawyer, journalist, and Whig politician who served in Territorial Legislature, the State Senate, and as a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida Supreme Court">Florida Supreme Court</a> justice in 1853, succeeding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker Anderson">Walker Anderson</a>. He was born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania">Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania</a> on January 23, 1799, the son of William and Sarah Ann Wright. He married Josephine De La Rua on February 23, 1826. He owned the <i>Pensacola Gazette</i> from 1834 to 1839 and edited the paper till 1846. He died on April 28, 1874. <p> Wright was admitted to the Luzerne County, Pennsylvania bar on April 7, 1820. When he was twenty-four, he moved to the Pensacola area. He became friends with and went to work for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard K. Call">Richard K. Call</a>, a protégé of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew Jackson">Andrew Jackson</a>. In April of 1824 he was appointed to the territorial council. In May, the president appointed him <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United States Attorney">United States Attorney</a> for Middle Florida, and then for West Florida in February of 1826. </p> Wikipedia New Pages 1799 births 1874 deaths florida supreme court justices journalists lawyers people from florida people from pennsylvania Wed, 14 May 2008 01:32:06 +0000