Samuel Gardiner Wright was born in Wrightstown, New Jersey

Wrightstown, New Jersey

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In 1830 he was elected to the New Jersey Legislative Council

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 representing Monmouth County

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.He was elected as a Whig

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 to the Twenty-ninth United States Congress to represent and served from March 4, 1845, until his death near Imlaystown, New Jersey

Imlaystown, New Jersey

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, before the assembling of Congress. He is buried in the East Branch Cemetery, near Imlaystown, N.J. His daughter, Anna Marie Wright, married George F. Fort

George F. Fort

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 in 1830. Fort was elected Governor of New Jersey

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in 1851.