Harvey Samuel Irwin Explained

Harvey Samuel Irwin
State:Kentucky
District:5th
Term Start:March 4, 1901
Term End:March 3, 1903
Predecessor:Oscar Turner
Successor:J. Swagar Sherley
Birth Date:10 December 1844
Birth Place:Highland County, Ohio, U.S.
Death Place:Vienna, Virginia, U.S.
Restingplace:Cave Hill Cemetery
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Party:Republican
Signature:Harvey-S.-Irwin-sig.jpg
Signature Alt:H. S. Irwin
Allegiance:Union
Branch:Union Army
Rank:Lieutenant
Battles:American Civil War

Harvey Samuel Irwin (December 10, 1844 – September 3, 1916) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.

Born in Highland County, Ohio, Irwin attended the public schools.He was graduated from the high school of Greenfield, Ohio.He studied law, but abandoned the same to enlist in the Union Army during the Civil War.Assisted in raising a regiment of Artillery and was commissioned a lieutenant.Transferred to a special corps in the Regular Army, in which he served until the close of the war.He settled in Louisville, Kentucky.He resumed the study of law.He was admitted to the bar and practiced.He was appointed successively assistant internal revenue assessor, deputy clerk of the United States district court, and chief deputy collector of the fifth internal revenue district of Kentucky.Railroad commissioner in 1895.

Irwin was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902.He resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.He was licensed as an evangelist in Washington, D.C., in 1913.Had a charge in Idylwood and Vienna, Virginia.He died in Vienna, Virginia, September 3, 1916.He was interred in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky.