William Robert Wright

William Robert Wright (May 20, 1935 – January 13, 2012), known as Bob Wright, was an American attorney, Utah Republican politician, and co-author of the award-winning biography, David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism.

Wright was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Ralph Bassett Wright and Afton Middlemiss Wright. He graduated valedictorian at East High School in 1953, and then served in the Swiss Austrian Mission of the LDS Church from 1955-58. Returning home to the University of Utah, he was elected student body vice president and received his B.S. in Geology in 1960, and his J.D. in 1963. Wright married Janet Clark in the Salt Lake Temple in 1965. They lived in Salt Lake City and had one daughter and seven sons.

Wright worked at the firm Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough in Salt Lake City for 29 years, as a new graduate, a manager, and an executive. Later in life he would become a partner of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn in Washington, D.C., and still later he was a partner at Holme Roberts & Owen in Salt Lake City.

From 1977 to 1979, Wright was Chairman of the Utah Republican Party. He ran unsuccessfully as the GOP's candidate for Utah governor in the 1980 gubernatorial election against Scott M. Matheson. He was later a finalist for President Ronald Reagan's judicial nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

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