[1] Wright was born in Eugenia Falls, Ontario,[2] and was educated in Emerson, Manitoba and at Wesley College in Winnipeg.
Wright later aligned himself with a group of Liberals who opposed the party's 1932 alliance (and subsequent merger) with the Progressives.
He campaigned in the 1936 provincial election as a Liberal Independent, and defeated Curran[1] by twenty votes.
In 1940, Wright endorsed the all-party coalition government created by Liberal-Progressive Premier John Bracken.
He campaigned for re-election in the 1941 election as an official Liberal-Progressive candidate, but lost to pro-coalition independent John Solomon[1] by 701 votes.