Ambrose R. Wright


Ambrose Ransom Wright was a lawyer, Georgia politician, and Confederate general in the American Civil War.

Wright, known by the nickname Rans, was born in Louisville, Georgia. He read law under the tutelage of Governor and Senator Herschel V. Johnson, who later became his brotherinlaw, and was admitted to the bar. He became prominent politically, although he ran unsuccessfully for the Georgia legislature and for the United States Congress. He was a presidential elector for Millard Fillmore in 1856, a supporter of Bell and Everett in 1860, and a Georgia commissioner to Maryland in 1861.

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