BRIGHT, JESSE D.
\bɹˈa͡ɪt], \bɹˈaɪt], \b_ɹ_ˈaɪ_t]\
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(1812-1875), was Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana in 1841. He represented Indiana in the U. S. Senate as a Democrat from 1845 to 1862, when he was expelled for having, in a letter to Jefferson Davis, recognized him as president of the Confederate States. He was a member of the Kentucky Legislature in 1866.
By John Franklin Jameson
