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Harriet Goodrich Rosenkrans Wright (October 11, 1845 – September 15, 1928) was an American politician and suffragette who served in the Colorado House of Representatives.
Life
Harriet G. R. Wright was born on October 11, 1845 to Cyrus E. Rosenkrans in East Troy, Wisconsin Territory. She married Henry Wright, a pioneer who had lived in the Colorado Territory during its foundation in 1861, and would have four children with him. In 1872, she and her family moved to Colorado, and later moved to Denver in 1882.
In 1898 she was elected to the Colorado House of Representatives under a Populist-Democratic fusion ticket, and ran for state senate in 1912 as a Democrat, but was defeated. She served as the vice chairwoman of The People's Party Arapahoe County Central Committee in 1900. She later served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's affiliate in Colorado. During the 1900 United States presidential election she supported William Jennings Bryan and served as a committee member on a pro-Bryan women committee.
In 1922 she moved to California along with one of her children before dying on September 15, 1928 in Los Angeles, after four years of illness.
