Seaborn Wright was a politician in the U.S. state of

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. He served in the

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from

Rome, Georgia Rome is the largest city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is the principal city of the Rome, Georgia, metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all ...

. He supported prohibition. He was a third party candidate for governor. He was a strident prohibitionist. In 1907 he wrote to

Thomas Edward Watson Thomas Edward Watson (September 5, 1856 – September 26, 1922) was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an ag ...

. In 1908 he was billed as a Southern orator and fighter for clean government in a newspaper notice promoting him as a speaker for a campaign rally in Grand Junction, Colorado.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wright, Seaborn People from Rome, Georgia Members of the Georgia House of Representatives 20th-century American politicians