William W. Irvin (April 5, 1779 – March 27, 1842) also spelled Irwin was a lawyer, farmer, politician, and two-term

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from

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from 1829 to 1833.

Biography

Born near

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, Irvin pursued an academic course and later studied law. He was

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in 1800 and commenced practice in his native county. He moved to

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, about 1801 and continued the practice of his profession. He was appointed by an April 9, 1803 joint session of the

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and

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to serve as an associate judge of the

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for

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by the first

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. He was

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ed in on February 22, 1805 by the

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. His

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before the

began on December 9, 1805, and he was convicted and removed from by an 11–4 vote on January 11, 1806. Irvin served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1806 and 1807, and was a justice of the

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from 1810 to 1815. He finished third in

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for

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in 1822. He was again a member of the Ohio House of Representatives 1825-27 and served as speaker in 1825 and 1826. He came in third for election to the

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in 1827, losing to

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. Taylor 1899 : 129 Irvin was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1833). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress. He returned to his farm near Lancaster and engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death on March 27, 1842. Irvin was married to Elizabeth B. Gillespie in Lancaster on February 2, 1813. They had seven children.

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