Jared Irwin (Pennsylvania)

Jared Irwin ( born January 19, 1768 in Georgia; † September 20, 1818 in Fernandina, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1817 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jared Irwin's birthplace is not known precisely. There are also about his schooling no information. In 1798, he was appointed in his home state of Georgia to the Commissioner for the acquisition and placement of slaves in the local second county. He later moved to Milton in Pennsylvania, where he worked in the trade. In the years 1802 and 1803, he was there and post holder. 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 was a member of the end of the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party. In 1811 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1812, Irwin was in the tenth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Aaron Lyle on March 4, 1813. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1817 two legislative sessions. These were initially still affected by the events of the British - American War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Jared Irwin took part in 1817 in the construction of a short-lived revolutionary government to Amelia Iceland in the then Spanish Florida. Shortly thereafter, the area fell to the United States. He died on September 20, 1818 in Fernandina.