Theodore S. Wright

Biography

Theodore Sedgwick Wright (April 1797 – March 25, 1847), sometimes Theodore Sedgewick Wright, was an African American abolitionist and minister who was active in New York City, where he led the First Colored Presbyterian Church as its second pastor. He was the first African American to attend Princeton Theological Seminary (and the second to graduate from any US seminary), from which he graduated in 1828. In 1833, Wright became a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an influential interracial association of abolitionists, and served on its executive committee until 1840.

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