Biography

01/24/1815 - 08/26/1856


WRIGHT, Harrison, a Representative from Luzerne County; born, January 24, 1815 in Plymouth, Luzerne County, Pa.; lawyer; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1856 term; died while in office, August 26, 1856 in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hollenback Cemetery, Wilkes- Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. 


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