Calvin E. Wright

Politician, Deceased Person

1909 – 1988

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Who was Calvin E. Wright?

Calvin Everett Wright was a Democratic politician from Idaho. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Idaho in 1950. Wright was defeated by Republican Len Jordan.

Wright served as Idaho state auditor from 1939 to 1945. He was elected in 1938 and re-elected in 1940 and 1942. At that time Idaho had two-year terms for statewide offices.

During Wright's first term in office the Idaho Legislature passed legislation setting up an office of State Comptroller and transferred many of the duties from the State Auditor to this newly created office. Wright brought suit in Idaho District Court challenging the constitutionality of the act. After winning a judgement in his favor at the state District Court level the case was appealed to the Idaho Supreme Court. In a landmark decision handed down February 3, 1940, the case Wright v. Callahan found that the “…entire statute creating office of state comptroller void for unconstitutionality of part, the essential purpose of which to divest the state auditor of his constitutional powers and duties….” The court also stated the "legislature may prescribe duties in addition to those prescribed by the Constitution, provided, those prescribed by the legislature do not conflict with the duties either expressly or impliedly prescribed by the Constitution."

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Born
1909
Also known as
  • Calvin Wright
Profession
Lived in
  • Idaho
Died
1988

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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