Irwin, Jared
soldier, state legislator, governor, was born in 1750, in Mecklenburg county, N. C. During the latter part of the revolutionary war he was actively employed against the tories and Indians. At the close of the war he was a member of the state legislature, and of the convention which adopted the United States constitution in 1789. He was governor of the state from 1796 to 1798; and president of the state constitutional convention in 1798. He was many years a member, and president of the state senate; and was again governor from 1806 to 1809. He died March 1, 1818, in Washington county, Ga.