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James Claude Wright Jr. (December 22, 1922 – May 6, 2015) was an American politician who served as the 48th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989. He represented Texas' 12th congressional district as a Democrat from 1955 to 1989.
James Claude Wright Jr. ( Fort Worth, Texas, Estados Unidos; 22 de diciembre de 1922 - Fort Worth; 6 de mayo de 2015) fue un político estadounidense que se desempeñó como el 48° presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos de 1987 a 1989.
6 de may. de 2015 · The congressman, who died Wednesday at age 92, had been fighting the allegations for months, with the controversy beginning in his second year as speaker and stretching into his third with no end in sight. At stake was the ignominy of becoming the first speaker in history to be driven out of office in midterm.
6 de may. de 2015 · Jim Wright, the Texas Democrat who spent three decades rising to speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives only to lose his seat in a bitter debate over his ethics, has died. He was 92. He...
6 de may. de 2015 · DALLAS (AP) — Former U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright, the longtime Texas Democrat who became the first House speaker in the nation’s history to be driven out of office in midterm, has died at age 92.
6 de may. de 2015 · Jim Wright, a Texas Democrat who served as speaker from 1987 to 1989, resigned amid ethics charges. He was a confidant of Lyndon B. Johnson and a mediator in the Middle East and Central America.
6 de may. de 2015 · May 6, 20155:40 PM ET. Ron Elving. Enlarge this image. Former House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas in 2005. He died Wednesday at the age of 92. Yuri Gripas/AP. Jim Wright occupies a kind of...
