WRIGHT, Joseph Albert, governor of Indiana, born in Washington, Pennsylvania, 17 April, 1810; died in Berlin, Germany, 11 May, 1867. He removed to Bloomington, Indiana, with his parents, and entered the State university, where, to procure his education, he acted as janitor, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829, began practice in Rockville, Indiana, and was a member of both houses of the legislature. Being elected to congress as a Democrat, tie served from 4 December, 1843, till 3 March, 1845, and from 1849 till 1857 he was governor of Indiana. In the last-named year he was appointed minister to Prussia, holding this position until 1861. From 3 March, 1862, till 22 January, 1863, he served in the United States senate to fill the unexpired term of Jesse D. Bright, who had been expelled, he was appointed United States commissioner to the Hamburg exhibition in 1863, and was then a second time minister to Prussia, serving from 1865 until his death.--His brother, George Grover, jurist, born in Bloomington, Indiana, 24 March, 1820, was graduated at the University of Indiana in 1839, studied law with his brother in Rockville, and removed to Iowa in 1840, where he began practice, He was prosecuting attorney in 1847-'8, was elected to the Iowa senate in 1849, serving two terms, and was chosen chief justice of the supreme court of Iowa in 1854, serving till 1870. From 1868 till 1870 he was a professor in the law department of the University of Iowa, and he was then elected United States senator as a Republican, holding his seat from 4 March, 1871, till 3 March, 1877, and serving on the committees on finance, the judiciary, claims, and the civil service. He then resumed his practice, and for the past five years has lectured before the law-school of the State university. He is president of the Polk county savings-bank. In 1860-'5 he was president of the Iowa agricultural society.