[2] He began the practice of law, which he would remain in for fifty-five years, in Los Angeles.

[3] During World War II, Wright attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and then was appointed by the Justice Department as a member of the Board of Appeals in enemy alien hearings.

[3] In 1955, Wright was asked by his friend, Vice President Richard Nixon, to serve as a chairman of the Commission on Government Security.

Wright served for ten years from 1954 as president of the International Bar Association.

[3] In 1962, Wright hired Murray Chotiner as his campaign manager and ran for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, but was handily defeated by incumbent Thomas H.