Ashley Bascom Wright was an American politician. He was the chairman of the Committee on Mileage in the fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses.Wright was born in Hindsdale Berkshire County Massachusetts on May 25 1841. Wright attended public schools and Lincoln Academy at Hinsdale. He moved to North Adams Massachusetts in 1861. In that year he was appointed chief deputy collector of internal revenue for the tenth district of Massachusetts in 1861.
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