Thomas Irwin

Irwin Thomas ( born February 22, 1785 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † May 14, 1870 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1829 and 1831 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

Thomas Irwin attended the public schools of his home and then the Franklin College in Lancaster. In 1804, he moved the newspaper philadelphia repository. After studying law and his 1808 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Uniontown in this profession. Between 1809 and 1811 he was Indian agent at Natchitoches in the later state of Louisiana. He also worked as a lawyer. In 1811 he returned to Uniontown, where he also practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1812 and 1819 he also served as deputy district attorney in Fayette County. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. Between 1824 and 1828 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Irwin was in the 14th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Andrew Stewart on March 4, 1829. Since he resigned in 1830 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1831. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

Between 1831 and 1859 Thomas Irwin was a judge at the Federal District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died on 14 May 1870 in Pittsburgh, where he was also buried.