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Clifford Emerson Wright, OC SOM (September 21, 1927 – December 9, 2014) was the Mayor of Saskatoon from 1976 to 1988 and the first Mayor of Saskatoon to have been born in the city.
He was a member of the Saskatoon City Council from 1967 until he was elected Mayor in 1976. He served for four successive terms until 1988. From 1989 to 1993 he served as a Treaty Commissioner. He was also Chair of the Saskatoon Health Board during the 1990s.
In 1988 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1998 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of "his contributions to province and country". In 1999 he was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit .
Wright died from lung cancer while in palliative care at a Saskatoon hospital on December 9, 2014, aged 87.
Wright was married to Betty and had four children. His grandson James Wright is an ice hockey forward who played for the Winnipeg Jets.