Fielding L. Wright

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 candidate for vice-president of the segregationist States' Rights Democratic Party (Dixiecrats), running alongside South Carolina's Governor Strom Thurmond. He has been called "one of the most racist political leaders in Mississippi's history."