Harriet Goodrich Rosenkrans Wright (October 11, 1845 – September 15, 1928) was an American politician and suffragist who served in the

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Life

Harriet G. R. Wright was born on October 11, 1845, to Cyrus E. Rosenkrans in

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. She married Henry Wright, a pioneer who had lived in the

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during its foundation in 1861. They had four children. In 1872, she and her family moved to Colorado, and later moved to Denver in 1882. In 1898, she was elected to the

under a Populist-Democratic fusion ticket, and ran for state senate in 1912 as a Democrat, but was defeated. She served as the vice chairwoman of The People's Party Arapahoe County Central Committee in 1900. She later served as president of the

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's affiliate in Colorado. During the

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she supported

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and served as a committee member on a pro-Bryan women committee. In 1922, she moved to

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along with one of her children. She died on September 15, 1928 in

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, after four years of illness.

References

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