Allen Wright

Political career and service during the Civil War Wright became a member of the Choctaw Council in 1856. He was elected treasurer of the Choctaw Nation in 1859, and a member of the Choctaw Council in 1861.

Wright represented the Choctaw Nation at the Fort Smith Council and signed the Reconstruction Treaty of 1866. When the Federal commissioners proposed to consolidate all of the Indian Territories tribes under an intertribal council, he suggested the term Oklahoma as the name for the Territory.

In 1885, Wright served as editor and translator of the Indian Champion. He was a charter member of the first Masonic lodge in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. He was also a member of the Royal Arch Masons in Maryland, which he had joined in 1866.

Wright served as superintendent of schools for the Choctaw Nation from 1880 to 1884.

Wright died in Boggy Depot, Indian Territory on December 2, 1885. He had been riding a circuit to evangelize the Gospel. After having to swim across a river to continue his journey, he contracted pneumonia. He was buried in the Boggy Depot cemetery. His widow Harriet died December 25, 1894, in the town of Atoka. She was buried next to him in Boggy Depot.