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Fielding Lewis Wright (May 16 1895 – May 4 1956) was a Democratic politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1944 to 1946 then as Governor after the incumbent Thomas L. Bailey died in office in 1946. Wright was elected Governor in his own right in 1947 and served a full four-year term. In 1948 Wright was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate of the States’ Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats) running alongside South Carolina’s Governor Strom Thurmond.