Ashley B. Wright

Infobox_Congressman
name=Ashley Bascom Wright


state=Massachusetts
district=1st
term=1893 – 1898
preceded=Charles S. Randall
succeeded=George P. Lawrence
date of birth=birth date|1841|5|25|mf=y
place of birth=Hinsdale, Massachusetts
date of death=death date and age|1897|8|14|1841|5|25|mf=y
place of death=North Adams, Massachusetts
spouse=
profession=
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party=Republican|

Ashley Bascom Wright was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.

Born in Hindsdale, Berkshire County, Massachusetts on May 25, 1841; died in North Adams, Berkshire County, August 14, 1897. Wright is interred in the Hinsdale Cemetery.

Wright attended public schools and Lincoln Academy at Hinsdale. He moved to North Adams, Massachusetts in 1861. In that year, he was appointed chief deputy collector of internal revenue for the tenth district of Massachusetts in 1861 but resigned from that position in 1865 to engage in mercantile pursuits.

He was the chairman of the Committee on Mileage in the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses.

Wright was elected selectman and commissioner for Berkshire County 1884-1887 and acted as chairman for one year. He was a member of the State executive council in 1890 and 1891 before being elected as a Republican to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses, serving from March 4, 1893 until his death.

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