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Mar 25, 1852 Greenwich, England, United Kingdom Died on 10 Sep 1922 (aged 70)
Australian politician
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About Jabez Wright
- Jabez Wright (25 April 1852 – 10 September 1922) was an English-born Australian politician. Wright was born at Greenwich in England, the son of Jabez Gladstone Wright.
- He worked in North and South America before moving to South Australia, eventually settling in Broken Hill around 1888.
- On 15 January 1878 Wright had married Honora Kearney, with whom he had four children.
- He worked as a carpenter and then as an undertaker, and was a member of the Australian Workers' Union.
- From 1896 to 1902 Wright was an alderman at Broken Hill.
- He rose to be mayor from 1900 to 1901, the first Labor Mayor in the world.
- He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1913 as the Labor member for Willyama.
- With the introduction of proportional representation in 1920 Wright was defeated running for Sturt, but filled the vacancy caused by the murder of Percy Brookfield in 1921.
- Wright himself caused a vacancy a year later when he died at Bondi.
