Wright graduated from Breckinridge County High School where he was a member of the Future Farmers of America.
At the time, the district comprised precincts in Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Meade, and Ohio counties.
[7] In 1978, Wright joined a group of Democratic senators, led by John M. Berry, in a push for legislative independence from the executive branch.
Berry and Wright were joined by senators Tom Easterly, Lowell Hughes, David Karem, Danny Meyer, Mike Moloney, and Ed O'Daniel.
They demanded that the legislature be open, transparent, accountable and, above all, independent (that bills be heard regardless of the governor’s opinion).
However, with the death of William H. Natcher and the election of Republican Ron Lewis in 1994 he was urged to run for the congressional seat.
Tobacco was a major cash crop in the district, which made Clinton and the national Democratic party unpopular.
[3][10] Wright, alongside his brother Ben, was the co-owner of a John Deere tractor dealership that has four locations in Kentucky (Hardinsburg, Owensboro, Bowling Green, and Glasgow) and three in Indiana (Corydon, Seymour, and Orleans).