Walter Livingston Wright (February 3, 1872 – January 17, 1946) was an American educator and academic administrator who served as president of Lincoln University from 1936 to 1945. He had been a professor of mathematics at Lincoln since 1893 and served as acting president from 1924 to 1926. His successor was Lincoln's first Black president, Horace Mann Bond.

Life and career

Wright was born in the Juliustown section of Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, to parents Walter L. and Elizabeth Gaskill Wright. He received his BA degree in 1892 and his MA in physics in 1895, both from Princeton University. During World War I, he participated in YMCA educational work in Brest, France. He taught mathematics at Lincoln University from 1893 to 1936 and served as vice president from 1926 to 1936. He received an LLD from Lincoln in 1933. He was a member of the

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. All three of his children went on to academic careers. Walter Livingston Wright Jr. (1900–1949) served as professor of Turkish language and history at Princeton University and served as president of

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and the Istanbul Woman's College in Istanbul, Turkey. His younger son, George Carr, taught modern languages at Lincoln, and his daughter, Jean Gray Wright, taught at the University of Richmond. All three children, along with their mother, Jean Carr Wright, survived their father. Wright died of a heart attack at his home on Lincoln's campus at the age of 73.

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