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Luke Wright


43rd United States Secretary of War
In office July 1, 1908 – March 11, 1909
President	Theodore Roosevelt
Preceded by	William H. Taft
Succeeded by	Jacob M. Dickinson
United States Ambassador to Japan
In office May 26, 1906 – August 13, 1907
President	Theodore Roosevelt
Preceded by	Lloyd Carpenter Griscom (Minister)
Succeeded by	Thomas O'Brien
Governor-General of the Philippines
In office February 1, 1904 – November 3, 1905
President	Theodore Roosevelt
Preceded by	William H. Taft
Succeeded by	Henry C. Ide
Governor of Palawan
In office 1904–1905
Preceded by	John Elmick
Succeeded by	Edward Y. Miller
Vice Governor-General of the Philippines
In office October 29, 1901 – January 31, 1904
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Henry Clay Ide

Personal details
Born	Luke Edward Wright (1846-08-29)August 29, 1846 Giles County, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	November 17, 1922(1922-11-17) (aged 76) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Hill Cemetery Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
Political party	Democratic (Before 1896) Republican (1896–1922)
Spouse	Katherine Semmes
Education	University of Mississippi, Oxford
Signature
Military service
Allegiance	Confederate States
Branch/service	Confederate States Army
Years of service	1862–1864
Rank	Second Lieutenant
Battles/wars	American Civil War Battle of Murfreesboro

Luke Edward Wright (August 29, 1846 – November 17, 1922) was a United States political figure. He served as Governor-General of the Philippines from 1904 to 1905 and also as Secretary of War from 1908 to 1909.

Biography

Luke Edward Wright was born in Giles County, Tennessee, and moved with his family to Memphis in 1850. He attended the public schools, and enlisted at fifteen in the Confederate States Army with Company G of the 154th Senior Tennessee Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. In 1863, Wright was cited for bravery under fire in the Battle of Murfreesboro and promoted to second lieutenant. After the Civil War, Wright attended the University of Mississippi from 1867 to 1868, but he did not graduate. He was a member of the Delta Psi fraternity, also known as St. Anthony Hall.

After studying law in his father's office, Wright was admitted to the bar and entered into practice in Memphis. For eight years, he served as Tennessee Attorney General, and he was instrumental in establishing a relief committee during an epidemic of yellow fever in 1878. Before the nomination of William Jennings Bryan, Wright was a Democrat. In 1900, Wright was a member of the second Philippine Commission and was appointed vice-governor of the Philippines in 1901. Wright became full Governor-General of the Philippines in 1904 and continued in that office until 1905. From 1906 to 1907, Wright served as the first full United States Ambassador to Japan.

From July 1, 1908 to March 11, 1909, Wright served as United States Secretary of War under President Theodore Roosevelt. He stressed actions to eliminate unfit officers and sought to take advantage of aviation technology. He served less than a year before resigning. He returned to private life and died on November 17, 1922, at his home in Memphis. He was buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in Memphis.

Legacy

The "Pool of Pines", better known as Wright Park in Baguio, Philippines was named after Governor Luke E. Wright, the architect of this long, shallow reflecting pool. A street in Dumaguete in Negros Oriental province is named after him.

References

"Mr. Wilson's Cabinet: Will Be Sagacious Men, but Not Political Experts" (PDF). November 7, 1912. Retrieved February 6, 2013.
Luke Wright papers, 1883–1911, bulk 1900-1906.
"Wright Funeral Today". The Baltimore Sun. November 19, 1922. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.[REDACTED]

Bell, William Gardner. "Luke Edward Wright". Secretaries of War and Secretaries of the Army. Archived from the original on December 14, 2007. Retrieved August 12, 2010.

External links

Wright Park, Baguio City Philippines

Government offices
Preceded byWilliam Howard Taft	U.S. Secretary of War Served under: Theodore Roosevelt 1908–1909	Succeeded byJacob M. Dickinson
Preceded byWilliam Howard Taft	Civil Governor of the Philippines February 1, 1904 – April 1, 1906	Succeeded byHenry Clay Ide
Diplomatic posts
Preceded byLloyd Carpenter Griscom Envoy to Japan	United States Ambassador to Japan 1906–1907	Succeeded byThomas J. O'Brien

United States secretaries of war and the Army

Department
of War
(1789–1947)

Secretaries	B. Lincoln Knox Pickering McHenry Dexter Dearborn Eustis Armstrong Monroe W. Crawford Calhoun Barbour P. Porter Eaton Cass Poinsett Bell Spencer J. Porter Wilkins Marcy G. Crawford Conrad J. Davis Floyd Holt S. Cameron Stanton Schofield Rawlins Belknap A. Taft J. Cameron McCrary Ramsey R. Lincoln Endicott Proctor Elkins Lamont Alger Root W. Taft Wright Dickinson Stimson Garrison Baker Weeks D. Davis Good Hurley Dern Woodring Stimson Patterson Royall
Assistant secretaries	Scott Watson Tucker Wolcott Dana Eckert Grant Doe Meiklejohn Sanger Oliver Breckinridge Ingraham Crowell Williams Wainwright D. Davis MacNider Robbins Hurley Payne Woodring L. Johnson Patterson McCloy Petersen
Under secretaries	Patterson Royall Draper

Department
of the Army
(1947–present)

Secretaries	Royall Gray Pace Stevens Brucker Stahr Vance Ailes Resor Froehlke Callaway Hoffmann C. Alexander Marsh Stone West Caldera White Harvey Geren McHugh Fanning Esper McCarthy Wormuth
Under secretaries	Draper Gray Voorhees A. Alexander Bendetsen E. Johnson Slezak Finucane Milton Ailes Ignatius Resor McGiffert Beal BeLieu Staudt Augustine LaBerge Ambrose Stone Shannon Reeder Walker Rostker Dahlberg Brownlee Geren Ford Westphal Carson Murphy McCarthy McPherson Camarillo

v t e American governors-general of the Philippines
1898–1935
Military government (1898–1902)	Merritt Otis MacArthur Chaffee
Insular Government (1901–1935)	Taft Wright Ide Smith Forbes Gilbert Harrison Yeater Wood Gilmore Stimson Gilmore Davis Butte Roosevelt Murphy
Smallcaps indicate military governors Italics indicate acting governors

v t e Cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)
Secretary of State	John Hay (1901–1905) Elihu Root (1905–1909) Robert Bacon (1909)
Secretary of the Treasury	Lyman J. Gage (1901–1902) L. M. Shaw (1902–1907) George B. Cortelyou (1907–1909)
Secretary of War	Elihu Root (1901–1904) William Howard Taft (1904–1908) Luke Edward Wright (1908–1909)
Attorney General	Philander C. Knox (1901–1904) William Henry Moody (1904–1906) Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1906–1909)
Postmaster General	Charles Emory Smith (1901–1902) Henry Clay Payne (1902–1904) Robert Wynne (1904–1905) George B. Cortelyou (1905–1907) George von Lengerke Meyer (1907–1909)
Secretary of the Navy	John Davis Long (1901–1902) William Henry Moody (1902–1904) Paul Morton (1904–1905) Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1905–1906) Victor H. Metcalf (1906–1908) Truman H. Newberry (1908–1909)
Secretary of the Interior	Ethan A. Hitchcock (1901–1907) James Rudolph Garfield (1907–1909)
Secretary of Agriculture	James Wilson (1901–1909)
Secretary of Commerce and Labor	George B. Cortelyou (1903–1904) Victor H. Metcalf (1904–1906) Oscar Straus (1906–1909)

v t e United States ambassadors to Japan
Resident Minister	Harris Pruyn Van Valkenburgh DeLong
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	DeLong Bingham Hubbard Swift Coombs Dun Buck Griscom
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Wright O'Brien Bryan Anderson Guthrie Morris Warren Woods Bancroft MacVeagh Castle Forbes Grew Murphy Allison MacArthur Reischauer Johnson Meyer Ingersoll Hodgson Mansfield Armacost Mondale Foley Baker Schieffer Roos Kennedy Hagerty Emanuel

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