Gordon Samuel Dales Wright (June 28, 1927 – October 18, 1990) was a lawyer who served as a Crown Prosecutor for the Attorney General's office, and a politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 until his death in 1990.
[2] He first ran for the Alberta legislature in the 1967 general election in the electoral district of Edmonton North; he lost to incumbent Social Credit MLA Ethel Wilson.
[3] In 1968 he ran for the leadership of the Alberta NDP and lost to Grant Notley by 27 votes.
[4] In the 1975 general election, Wright ran in Edmonton-Strathcona and finished a strong second to incumbent Julian Koziak.
[7] In the 1986 general election Wright defeated Koziak and became an MLA on his sixth attempt at office.