LUKE E. WRIGHT

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FULL NAME: 
Luke Edward Wright 

BORN:
August 29, 1846
Giles County, Tennessee

DIED:
November 17, 1922 (age 76)
Memphis, Tennessee

EDUCATION:
University of Mississippi, Oxford

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democratic (Before 1896)
Republican (1896–1922)

HIGHLIGHTS:
1850:
Moved to Memphis, Tennessee
1904-1905:
Governor General of the Philippines
1906-1907:
U.S. Ambassador to Japan
1908-1909:
U.S. Secretary of War 

RESOURCES:

U.S. Philippine commissioners General Luke E. Wright, William H. Taft, and Judge Henry C. Ide, ca. 1901 (Library of Congress)

BIOGRAPHIES:
U.S. Army
UVA Miller Center
University of Michigan
Wikipedia

OBITUARY:
New York Times

PORTRAIT:

Artist:  Gerard Barry (U.S. Army Portrait)