Percy Wright

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title: "Percy Wright" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1892-births", "1980-deaths", "20th-century-canadian-farmers", "canadian-military-personnel-of-world-war-i", "co-operative-commonwealth-federation-mps", "members-of-the-house-of-commons-of-canada-from-saskatchewan", "people-from-renfrew-county", "20th-century-members-of-the-house-of-commons-of-canada", "farmers-from-saskatchewan"] description: "Canadian politician (1892–1980)" topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Wright" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Canadian politician (1892–1980) ::

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Field	Value
name	Percy Wright
birthname	Percy Ellis Wright
image	Percy Wright MP Melfort.jpg
caption	Wright in September 1944
birth_date
birth_place	Beachburg, Ontario, Canada
death_date
death_place	Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
spouse	Alice I. Dougherty
m. 28 February 1922
riding	Melfort
predecessor	Malcolm MacLean
successor	riding dissolved
term_start	16 May 1940
term_end	13 June 1953
profession	farmer
party	Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
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Percy Ellis Wright (1 November 1892 – 30 September 1980) was a Canadian democratic socialist politician. He was a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), and served over 13 years as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of Canada. He served on the CCF's national council and executive, and was elected as the CCF's National Chairman in 1950. After he was defeated as an MP, he returned to his occupation as a farmer until his death in 1980.

Wright was born in Beachburg, Ontario, and attended Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto. He served in the Canadian Field Artillery during World War I and became a lieutenant. His career was in farming.

He was first elected to Parliament from the Melfort electoral district in the 1940 federal election. He was re-elected in 1945 and 1949. When the Melfort electoral district was abolished, in the 1952 federal riding redistribution, Wright sought re-election in Melville, which contained roughly half of his old riding. It was also the electoral district of incumbent federal Minister of Agriculture James Garfield Gardiner of the Liberal party. In the 1953 Federal Election Wright was defeated by Gardiner, ending his federal political career.

When F. R. Scott retired as the national chairman, just before the CCF's biennial convention in Vancouver in July 1950, there was a rift between the farmer and labour wings.{{Cite news | first = Dennis | last = Braithwaite | title = C.C.F. Disavows Marx Class Struggle Idea, Tempers High in Debate | newspaper = The Toronto Daily Star | pages = 1, 7 | date = 29 July 1950 | last = Staff | title = Make Own Foreign Policy, Follow U.N. CCF Meet Urges | newspaper = The Toronto Daily Star | pages = 1–2 | date = 9 August 1952 | first = Pat | last = McNenly | title = 'Ginger' Grouper Declines, Pick Lewis CCF Chairman | newspaper = The Toronto Daily Star | page = 3 | date = 31 July 1954

References

References

1. Normandin, Pierre G.. (1952). "The Canadian Parliamentary Guide".
2. "Wright, Percy Ellis". House of Commons, Parliament of Canada.
3. "Login: The Family of John and Priscilla Wright".

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