Jared Wright is a newspaper editor, editorial cartoonist, and former Colorado politician. He has also worked as a police officer. Wright served a single term in the

Colorado House of Representatives The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Colorado. The House is composed of 65 members from an equal number of constituent districts, with each distr ...

from 2013 to 2015, representing House District 54 in

Mesa A mesa is an isolated, flat-topped elevation, ridge or hill, which is bounded from all sides by steep escarpments and stands distinctly above a surrounding plain. Mesas characteristically consist of flat-lying soft sedimentary rocks capped by ...

and

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counties. After leaving office, he was appointed editor and publisher of the Denver-based political newspaper ''

The Colorado Statesman ''The Colorado Statesman'' was a weekly political newspaper published in Denver and was one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in Colorado. ''The Statesman'' covered the Colorado General Assembly, state government, public policy issues ...

'', for which he had earlier been contributing political cartoons. Wright is from

Fruita, Colorado The City of Fruita is a home rule municipality located in western Mesa County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 13,395 at the 2020 United States Census. Fruita is a part of the Grand Junction, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area a ...

and worked as a police officer there.Election win could put cop out of day job
''The Daily Sentinel''. Viewed: January 13, 2017.

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External links

Political cartoons

Wright's page at ''The Colorado Statesman''
21st-century American politicians Living people Republican Party members of the Colorado House of Representatives People from Mesa County, Colorado American editorial cartoonists American newspaper editors Year of birth missing (living people) {{Colorado-politician-stub