Jared Irwin (politician, 1768)

Jared Irwin (born January 19, 1768 in Province of Georgia , †  September 20, 1818 in Fernandina , Florida Territory ) was a British- American politician . Between 1813 and 1817 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jared Irwin's exact place of birth is not known. There is also no information about his school education. In 1798 he was appointed in his home state of Georgia to the commissioner for the registration and accommodation of slaves in the local second administrative district. He later moved to Milton , Pennsylvania, where he worked in commerce. In 1802 and 1803 he was also a postman there. Between 1808 and 1812 he served as sheriff in Northumberland County . He also took part as a colonel in the British-American War of 1812 . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in the late 1790s . In 1811 he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives .

In the congressional election of 1812 , Irwin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Pennsylvania , where he succeeded Aaron Lyle on March 4, 1813 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1817 . These were initially shaped by the events of the British-American War.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Jared Irwin took part in the building of a short-lived revolutionary government on Amelia Island in Florida, which was then still Spanish in 1817 . A little later the area fell to the United States. He died in Fernandina on September 20, 1818.

Web links

• Jared Irwin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Aaron Lyle	United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (10th constituency) with Isaac Smith March 4, 1813 - March 3, 1817	David Scott