Clifford Warren Wright

1 October 1924–26 May 2002 (Age 77)
Tennessee, United States

The Life of Clifford Warren

When Clifford Warren Wright was born on 1 October 1924, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Rollin Dufoe Wright, was 30 and his mother, Frantiska May Horak, was 20. He married Dorothy Clara Harrison on 29 March 1943, in Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 26 May 2002, at the age of 77.

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Clifford Warren Wright
1924–2002
Dorothy Clara Harrison
1923–2010
Marriage: 29 March 1943
Deborah Wright
1949–2009

Spouse and Children

MARRIAGE
29 March 1943
Arkansas, United States
children

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    Deborah Wright

    Female1949–2009Female

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World Events (8)

1927

Age 3

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1931 · The Parthenon is Built

Age 7

In 1931, a full scale replica of the Parthenon in Greece was erected in Nashville, Tennessee. The Parthenon was meant to be temporary, but became a permanent part of Tennessee culture. It also has a replica of the statue of Athena the Goddess of War.At the same time a city over Memphis built  giant pyramid replica to remind everyone what the city was named for. 
1945 · Peace in a Post War World

Age 21

The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.

Name Meaning

1 English, Scottish, and northern Irish: occupational name for a maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Old English wyrhta, wryhta ‘craftsman’ (a derivative of wyrcan ‘to work or make’). The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright ), but when used in isolation it generally referred to a builder of windmills or watermills.2 Common New England Americanized form of French Le Droit, a nickname for an upright person, a man of probity, from Old French droit ‘right’, in which there has been confusion between the homophones right and wright.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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