Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Irvin, William W.

IRVIN, William W., jurist, b. in Albemarle county, Va., in 1778; d. in Lancaster, Ohio, 19 April, 1842. He studied law, practised in Lancaster, Ohio, held various local offices, was sent several times to the legislature, and was judge of the Ohio supreme court in 1809-'15. He was elected as a Jackson Democrat to congress in 1828, and re-elected in 1830, but defeated in 1832.