Jared Irwin (Pennsylvania politician)

Jared Irwin
Jared Irwin
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; from Pennsylvania's 10th district
	In office; March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817
Preceded by	Aaron Lyle
Succeeded by	David Scott; William Wilson
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
	In office; 1811
Personal details
Born	January 19, 1768; Province of Georgia, British America
Died	September 20, 1818 (aged 50); Fernandina, Spanish Florida
Political party	Democratic-Republican

Jared Irwin (January 19, 1768 – September 20, 1818) was a United States Representative from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Irwin was born in the Province of Georgia of British America. He was appointed commissioner for valuation of lands and dwellings and enumeration of slaves for the second division of Georgia on July 17, 1798. He engaged in mercantile pursuits at Milton, Pennsylvania, and served as postmaster of Milton from June 1, 1802, to June 29, 1803. He was sheriff of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, from 1808 to 1812. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1811, and served as colonel of the Fifth Rifle Regiment in the War of 1812.

Irwin was elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses. In 1817, Irwin assisted in the establishment and became a military leader of a short-lived revolutionary government, called the Republic of the Floridas, on Amelia Island.^[1] He died in Fernandina, Florida in 1818, which was then a part of the Spanish-controlled territory of Florida (Spain ceded Florida to the U.S. in 1821 as a result of the Adams–Onís Treaty).

^ Owsley, Frank Lawrence (1997). Filibusters and Expansionists : Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800-1821. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. p. 130. ISBN 9780585098081.