Biography

09/16/1803 - 09/15/1856

IRWIN, William Wallace, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, September 16, 1803 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pa.; graduated, Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), 1824; graduated, Allegheny College; lawyer (1828-1856); elected as an Anti-Mason to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1832-1833 term; unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1834); unsuccessful campaign, mayor, Pittsburgh (1838); elected, mayor, Pittsburgh (1840-1841); elected, United States Congress (1841-1843); presidential appointee, United States Ambassador to Denmark (1843-1847); died, September 15, 1856 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.