[1][2] He served as the President of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama from 1958 to 1983.
[2] He served as the state director for the Civilian Production Administration and the Alabama Savings Bond division of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1947 to 1950.
[1] From 1964 to 1965, he served as the seventeenth President of the Alabama Historical Association.
[1] The Leslie S. Wright Fine Arts Center at Samford University is named in his honor.
[3] He was married to Lolla Catherine Wurtele, and they had two sons, Leslie Stephen and John King.