Silas Wright -- 1795-1847
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Silas Wright 1795-1847 Born at Amherst, Mass. Silas Wright came to Weybridge as an infant and grew up here. Graduated from Middlebury College in 1815, he studied Law at Sandy Hill, NY; began Law Practice at Canton, NY, in 1819, and entered politics there. A Grigadier General by 1824, he was State Senator, 1825-1827; U.S. Congressman, 1827-1829; Comptroller, 1829-1833; U.S. Senator, 1833-1844; and Governor of New York, 1845-1847.
In 1844, General Wright had declined the Democratic Party nomination for U.S. Vice-President. The large marble monument was erected in 1848 by citizens of Weybridge and vicinity, which General Wright had always regarded as his natal place.
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