Francis Mastin Wright (July 14, 1810 – January 16, 1869) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was Ohio State Auditor (1856–1860).
Francis Wright was born in Frederick County, Virginia, and ended up in Clark County, Ohio, where he was educated in the country schools.
[1] In 1855, as a Republican, he defeated incumbent Democrat William Duane Morgan for Ohio State Auditor,[2] but declined a second term.
He returned to Urbana in 1860, and was appointed Internal Revenue Collector by President Lincoln.
He resigned in 1867 and died at Urbana January 16, 1869.