Biography

03/03/1862 - 10/09/1954

WRIGHT, Perry E., a Representative from Greene County; born, March 3, 1862 in Wind Ridge, Greene County, Pa.; teacher; postmaster, United States Post Office, Wind Ridge (1911-1914); representative, Mutual Life Insurance Company (1916-1935); elected, register and recorder, Greene County (1936-1939); elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1940; reelected and served 2 more consecutive terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1946); died, October 9, 1954 in Mount Morris, Greene County, Pennsylvania; interred, Jacksonville Cemetery, Wind Ridge, Green County, Pennsylvania.