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LOYD WRIGHT
Loyd Wright, lawyer, was born in San Jacinto, California, on December 24, 1892; son of Lucius A. and Naamah Pauline (Hank) Wright. His father and mother were both natives of Ohio.
Mr. Wright was educated in the local schools of San Jacinto and Hemet, California, and attended the University of Southern California, College of Liberal Arts and School of Law from 1911 to 1915. He was admitted to the California bar in June 1915, and he immediately began practice in Los Angeles in association with his brother, Arthur Wright. His practice was interrupted when he entered military service in World War I in the spring of 1917. He served in the American Expeditionary Forces as commander of Company D in the Eighth Infantry, and was honorably discharged in August, 1919, when he resumed his private practice in association with his brother.
In 1924, Mr. Wright established his own law practice and firm under the title of “Loyd Wright's Law Office.” In 1942 he established the firm of Wright and Millikan, and in 1949 he established the firm of Wright, Wright, Green and Wright. Mr. Wright is engaged in the general practice of law, consisting of civil, corporate and motion picture work.
He was a member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association for the Ninth Circuit, from September of 1946 to September of 1949. He is Past President of the Los Angeles Bar Association and of the State Bar of California.
Mr. Wright has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California (lecturer, 1922-1927, Law School, in corporation law, mechanics' lien and public utilities law), and of the Washington, D.C. School of Political Science. He was chairman of the Aviation Project Committee of the State of California and was for several years chairman of the California Horse Racing Board. He is a member of the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, Native Sons of the Golden West, Woodmen of the world, Scottish Rite and Knights Templar of the Masonic bodies, as well as the Shrine; he is a member of the California Club and the Los Angeles Country Club.
Mr. Wright was married in Riverside County, California, on September 7, 1918, to Julia Martha Kingsbury. They have four children: Loyd Wright, Jr., associated with his father in the practice of law; Pauline Wright Ellis; Clarissa Jane Wright; and Dudley Kingsbury Wright, also associated with his father in the practice of law.
Offices are at 111 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles 14, California.
Transcribed
1-27-15 Marilyn
R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent Californians 1953, by Lee E.
Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Pages 551-552, C. W. Taylor Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2015 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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