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

In that year, he was appointed chief deputy collector of internal revenue for the tenth district of Massachusetts in 1861.

Wright served as a selectman and commissioner for Berkshire County from 1884 to 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.

Wright died in North Adams, Berkshire County, August 14, 1897.