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Place of Birth: Whitewater Region, Ontario, Canada
About Percy Wright
- Percy Ellis Wright (1 November 1892 – 30 September 1980) was a democratic socialist politician.
- He was a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), and served over 13 years as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada.
- He served on the CCF's national council and executive, and was elected as the CCF's National Chairman in 1950.
- After he was defeated as an MP, he returned to his occupation as a farmer until his death in 1980. Wright was born in Beachburg, Ontario, and attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto.
- He served in the Canadian Field Artillery during World War I and became a lieutenant.
- His career was in farming.He was first elected to Parliament from the Melfort electoral district in the 1940 federal election.
- He was re-elected in 1945 and 1949.
- When the Melfort electoral district was abolished, in the 1952 federal riding redistribution, Wright sought re-election in Melville, which contained roughly half of his old riding.
- It was also the electoral district of incumbent federal Minister of Agriculture James Garfield Gardiner of the Liberal party.
- In the 1953 Federal Election Wright was defeated by Gardiner, ending his federal political career. When F.
- R.
- Scott retired as the National Chairman, just before the CCF's biennial convention in Vancouver in July 1950, there was a rift between the farmer and labour wings.
- Wright represented the farmer-wing, while Vancouver's Angus MacInnis, the son-in-law of former party founding leader J.S.
- Woodsworth, represented the labour-wing.
- Wright defeated MacInnis in the election to be the CCF's National Chairman.
- He was elected again in 1952.
- At the 1954 convention Wright retired as National Chairman and David Lewis was elected to replace him.
- He died in 1980.
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