Daniel Thew Wright (September 24, 1864 – November 18, 1943) was an

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of the

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Education and career

Wright was born in

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, a neighborhood in

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, son of attorney and Judge

Daniel Thew Wright Sr. Daniel Thew Wright Sr. (25 March 1825 – 11 September 1912) was a member of the Ohio Supreme Court Commission of 1876, appointed from Hamilton County, Ohio to address an overage of Ohio Supreme Court cases. Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes appoi ...

He received an

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from

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in 1887. He was in

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in Cincinnati after 1887. He was a village

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of Riverside from 1888 to 1890, and Mayor of Riverside from 1890 to 1893. He was a second assistant

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of Hamilton County, Ohio from 1888 to 1890 and first assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County from 1890 to 1893. Wright was a Judge of the Hamilton County

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from 1893 to 1898.

Federal judicial service

Wright was nominated by President

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on November 10, 1903, to an Associate Justice seat on the

(now the

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) vacated by Associate Justice

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. He was confirmed by the

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on November 17, 1903, and received his commission the same day. His service terminated on November 15, 1914, due to his resignation under threat of impeachment for corruption, on a motion brought by Congressman

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of Georgia.

Later career and death

Wright returned to private practice of law in

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from 1914 to 1937. He served as an adjunct professor at

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. Wright died on November 18, 1943, in Fenwick, a community now located in Ocean City,

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